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顏

yán

face, facial appearance

Strokes
18
Radical
頁
HSK
—
Tone
2

Simplified form: 颜

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 颜, the simplified form of 顏. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 你的车什么颜色?

    Nǐ de chē shén me yán sè

    What color is your car?

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  • 有多少种颜色?

    Yǒu duō shao zhǒng yán sè

    How many colors are there?

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  • 它的颜色是红的。

    Tā de yán sè shì hóng de

    Its color is red.

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  • 颜色深了些。

    Yán sè shēn le xiē

    The colour is a bit too dark.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 颜

  • 颜色yán sè 2–4 color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff
  • 五颜六色wǔ yán liù sè 3–2–4–4multicolored; every color under the sun
  • 容颜róng yán 2–2 mien; complexion