The Chinese word for lavender is
薰衣草色
xūn yī cǎo sèChinese Definition
lavender | |
1. 薰衣草 | |
2. 薰衣草乾燥过的花 | |
3. 薄紫色 | |
4. 淡紫色 | |
Components | |
薰 | |
1. fragrance of flowers | |
2. coumarou, tonka bean | |
3. (Min) cigarette; smoke | |
4. to smoke | |
5. to cauterize | |
衣 | |
1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing | |
衣服 - clothes | |
內衣 - underwear | |
睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas | |
2. coating; covering; skin | |
糖衣 - sugar coating | |
槍衣 - gun cover | |
3. membrane; film | |
4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta | |
衣yì錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory | |
草 | |
1. herbaceous plant; herb; weed; wort; grass; forb | |
草地 上 有 一 頭 牛 在 吃 草。 - There is one cow eating grass on the lawn. | |
香草 - fragrant herb | |
蒿草 - mugwort | |
2. Used in names of some woody plants | |
莽草 - Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum | |
舞草 - Codariocalyx motorius | |
醉魚草 - Buddleja lindleyana | |
3. straw | |
稻草 - rice straw | |
草鞋 - straw sandals | |
4. (Cantonese, slang) marijuana; cannabis; weed | |
㨃deoi2 草 - to smoke weed | |
5. (dated) countryside; wilderness | |
落草為wéi寇 - to become a bandit in the countryside | |
6. common; ordinary | |
草金魚 - common goldfish | |
7. (dialectal, chiefly of livestock or poultry) female | |
8. draft; sketch | |
9. careless; rough; sloppy | |
10. to draft | |
草擬 - to draft; to draw up (a plan) | |
11. (calligraphy) Short for 草書, cursive script (grass script) | |
狂草 - wild cursive | |
12. cursive | |
13. (chemistry) oxalic | |
14. Variant of 皂 | |
15. (slang) Alternative form of 肏 (fuck) | |
16. (neologism, internet slang) LOL | |
草(中日 雙語) - fuck lmao | |
17. (neologism, internet slang) hilarious | |
這 也 太 草 了 吧。 - Isn't this a bit too hilarious? | |
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
薰衣草 | |
1. n. lavender |
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