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色彩

sè cǎi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

色彩 (sè cǎi) means "tint; coloring; coloration". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 色彩 means

1. tint; coloring; coloration
2. (fig.) flavor; character

The characters in 色彩

• 色sècolor; look; appearance
• 彩cǎi(bright) color; variety; applause

Example sentences

• 她从姜黄里提取美丽色彩。
  Tā cóng jiānghuáng lǐ tíqǔ měilì sècǎi.
  She extracts beautiful colors from turmeric.
• 胡萝卜为我的餐点增添了色彩。
  Carrots add color to my meals.
• 艺术家必须拥有敏锐的色彩眼光。
  An artist has to have a color-sensitive eye.
• 他看见色彩鲜艳的鸟、花朵和树叶。
  Tā kànjiàn sècǎi xiānyàn de niǎo, huāduǒ hé shùyè.
  He saw brightly-colored birds, flowers and leaves.
• 和这幅比起上来，那幅画的色彩鲜艳多了。
  Hé zhè fú bǐqǐ shànglái, nà fú huà de sècǎi xiānyàn duō le.
  The picture is colorful in contrast with this one.
• 画家失望地践踏失败之作，留下一片混乱的色彩。
  The frustrated artist stomped on his failed painting, leaving a trail of shattered colors.

Words starting with 色彩

• 色彩缤纷sè cǎi bīn fēnsee 五彩缤纷

Words containing 色彩

• 富色彩fù sè cǎicolorful

Where 色彩 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sè cǎi correctly.
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