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颜色

yán sè

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 顏色

颜色 (yán sè) means "color". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 颜色 means

1. color
2. countenance
3. appearance
4. facial expression
5. pigment
6. dyestuff

The characters in 颜色

• 颜yáncolor; face; countenance
• 色sècolor; look; appearance

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 containing 颜色

• 给你点颜色看看gěi nǐ diǎn yán sè kàn kan(I'll) teach you a lesson; put you in your place

Where 颜色 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Colors and Appearance (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yán sè correctly.
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