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颜

yán

HSK 2 Character Traditional 顏

What 颜 means

1. color
2. face
3. countenance

Other readings

颜 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Yánsurname Yan

Example sentences

• 颜色深了些。
  The colour is a bit too dark.
• 颜色是甚么？
  What is color?
• 有多少种颜色？
  How many colors are there?
• 我喜欢绿颜色。
  I like the green colour.
• 这是你的颜色！
  This is your color!
• 它的颜色是红的。
  Its color is red.

Words starting with 颜

• 颜色yán sècolor; countenance; appearance
• 颜料yán liàopaint; dye; pigment
• 颜面yán miànface; prestige
• 颜值yán zhíattractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is)
• 颜回Yán HuíYan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 颜渊
• 颜射yán shèto ejaculate onto sb's face
• 颜控yán kòngsomeone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others)
• 颜艺yán yì(anime/games) art of making humorously exaggerated facial expressions…
• 颜体yán tǐYan Style (in Chinese calligraphy)
• 颜值高yán zhí gāogood-looking
• 颜文字yán wén zìJapanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
• 颜面扫地yán miàn sǎo dìlit. for one's face to reach rock bottom; to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)
• 颜厚yán hòubrazen
• 颜真卿Yán Zhēn qīngYan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
• 颜渊Yán YuānYan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子
• 颜厚有忸怩yán hòu yǒu niǔ níeven the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)

Words containing 颜

• 红颜hóng yána beautiful woman; young beauties; youths
• 五颜六色wǔ yán liù sèmulticolored; every color under the sun
• 容颜róng yánmien; complexion
• 汗颜hàn yánto blush with shame (literary)
• 笑颜xiào yánsmiling face
• 和颜悦色hé yán yuè sèamiable manner; pleasant countenance
• 厚颜无耻hòu yán wú chǐshameless
• 养颜yǎng yánto nourish one's skin; to maintain a youthful appearance
• 伯颜Bà yánBayan of the Baarin (1236–1295), Mongol general under Kublai Khan who led the conquest of…
• 喜笑颜开xǐ xiào yán kāigrinning from ear to ear (idiom); beaming with happiness
• 笑逐颜开xiào zhú yán kāismile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure; all smiles…
• 完颜Wán yántwo-character surname Wanyan
• 破颜pò yánto break into a smile; (of flowers) to open
• 素颜sù yána face without makeup
• 美颜měi yánto beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc); to retouch a photo to make sb look more…
• 开颜kāi yánto smile; to beam
• 面颜miàn yánface
• 驻颜zhù yánto maintain a youthful appearance
• 开心颜kāi xīn yánto rejoice; smiling
• 阿黑颜ā hēi yán(anime/games) ahegao (loanword from Japanese アヘ顔)
• 容颜失色róng yán shī sè(of complexion) to lose one's color; to blanch; to look wan
• 巴颜喀拉Bā yán kā lāBayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黄河
• 强颜欢笑qiǎng yán huān xiàoto pretend to look happy; to force oneself to smile
• 红颜知己hóng yán zhī jǐclose female friend; confidante

Characters that look like 颜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 糕gāocake
• 毅yìfirm and resolute; staunch
• 觑qùto spy; watch for
• 颞nièbones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

Sounds the same

Read yán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 言words; speech; to say
• 研to grind; study; research
• 严tight (closely sealed); stern; strict
• 盐salt
• 延to prolong; to extend; to delay
• 沿along; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on
• 炎flame; inflammation; -itis
• 岩cliff; rock
• 妍beautiful
• 檐eaves; ledge or brim
• 阎(literary) the gate of a lane
• 筵bamboo mat for sitting