The Chinese word for color is
颜色

yán sè

Chinese Definition

color
1. 色彩
2. 涂色
3. 染料
4. 脸色
5. 色带
6. 姿态
7. 藉口
8. 生动
9. 赋与特色
10. 带色
11. 颜色
12. 色
13. 颜
Components
颜
1. Simplified form of 顏
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. look; expression
臉色 - facial expression
3. 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)

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. look; expression
臉色 - facial expression
3. 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)

顏色
1. n. color
眼睛jing 顏色 - eye color
要找出適合你的顏色。 - Find a color that suits you.
2. n. face; look; expression
3. n. good looks (of a woman)
4. n. amazing skill or ability
5. n. pigment

颜色
1. Simplified form of 顏色

彩色
1. adj. (attributive) color (as opposed to black-and-white)
2. n. color; multicolor

填色
1. to color

上色
1. adj. (attributive) top-quality; top-grade
2. v. to colour; to dye

著色
1. v. to put color on; to color

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