The Chinese word for gray is
灰色
huī sèChinese Definition
gray | |
1. 名词. 灰色 | |
Components | |
灰 | |
1. ash | |
煙灰 - cigarette ash | |
2. dust | |
電腦 屏幕 上 有 一 層 灰。 - There's a layer of dust on the computer screen. | |
他 吹 乾gān淨 這 本 書 上 的 灰。 - He blew the dust off the book. | |
3. lime; mortar | |
灰泥 - plaster; mortar | |
石灰 - lime | |
灰岩 - limestone | |
4. gray | |
灰色 - gray (color) | |
5. disheartened | |
心灰意冷 - to be disheartened | |
佢 成seng4 個 人 灰 咗。 - | |
6. (telegraphy) the tenth day of a month | |
7. (Cantonese, slang) powdered drug; heroin | |
8. Variant of 烌 | |
9. Used in 灰士 | |
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) |
Translations for 色 and their definitions
灰色 | |
1. n. gray (color) | |
你們 有 灰色 套 頭 毛衣 的 現貨 嗎? - Have you any grey pullovers in stock? |
灰 | |
1. ash | |
煙灰 - cigarette ash | |
2. dust | |
電腦 屏幕 上 有 一 層 灰。 - There's a layer of dust on the computer screen. | |
他 吹 乾gān淨 這 本 書 上 的 灰。 - He blew the dust off the book. | |
3. lime; mortar | |
灰泥 - plaster; mortar | |
石灰 - lime | |
灰岩 - limestone | |
4. gray | |
灰色 - gray (color) | |
5. disheartened | |
心灰意冷 - to be disheartened | |
佢 成seng4 個 人 灰 咗。 - | |
6. (telegraphy) the tenth day of a month | |
7. (Cantonese, slang) powdered drug; heroin | |
8. Variant of 烌 | |
9. Used in 灰士 |
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