yán

颜

color / face

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03 · Details

Meaning, words & where you learn it

Taught in your lessons 课程

颜色与描述Lesson 12 · Colors & Descriptions 买东西Lesson 19 · Going Shopping vocab

Words with 颜

颜色 yán sè color; countenance HSK 2
五颜六色 wǔ yán liù sè multicolored; every color under the sun HSK 4
容颜 róng yán mien; complexion HSK 7–9

Examples from your lessons

  • 你喜欢什么颜色？ What color do you like? Lesson 12
  • 这两个一样大，但是颜色不一样。 These two are the same size, but different colors. Lesson 12

Character facts

Radical
页 page, sheet, leaf
Parts
彦 + 页
Structure
Left–right
Unicode
U+989C

Pictophonetic: head

Same radical 页
yè 页 tí 题 dùn 顿 lǐng 领 xiàng 项 dǐng 顶 kē 颗 shùn 顺
Same sound
yǎn 眼 yǎn 演 yān 烟 yán 严 yán 盐 yán 沿 yàn 咽 yán 延