The Chinese word for brown is
棕色

zōng sè

Chinese Definition

brown
1. 名词. 棕色
Components
棕
1. palm tree
2. palm fiber
3. brown (color, similar to that of fibers made from a palm's leaf sheath)
棕熊 - brown bear
色
1. color; tint; hue; shade
顏色 - color
顏色shǎi兒r - color
紅色 - red
四.色.定理 - four color theorem
2. (zh-no-solo) look; expression
臉色 - facial expression
3. (zh-no-solo) scenery; circumstance
景色 - scenery
夜色 - night scenery
4. kind; sort
貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification
5. feminine charm; beauty
姿色 - good looks (of women)
6. lust; sexual desire
好hào色 - to lust for women
色情 - pornography; sexual desire
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
8. theatrical role
角jué色 - role; part
9. metallic content
成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy)
10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance)
色shǎi子zi - die
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
色即是空，空即是色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate)