Meaning
color; look; appearance; color; dice
Chinese: 颜色、神色或景象。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “se” becomes a different word in each tone. 色 is the 4th tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
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Common Words
- 颜色yán sècolor; countenance; appearance; facial expression
- 红色hóng sèred (color); revolutionary
- 黑色hēi sèblack
- 绿色lǜ sègreen
- 白色bái sèwhite; fig. reactionary; anti-communist
Example Sentence
我最喜欢的颜色是蓝色。Wǒ zuì xǐ huan de yán sè shì lán sè.My favorite color is blue.
我WǒI最zuìmost喜欢xǐ huanto like的deof颜色yán sècolor是shìis蓝色lán sèblue (color)。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
An old graph (a person over a kneeling figure, read by some as the face flushing with feeling). It means ‘color; look, expression; scene; quality (of goods); kind’ (颜色, 脸色, 角色).
A way to remember it
‘Color’; also ‘look, expression’: 颜色, 脸色.