颜
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color; face; countenance
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 頁 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 顏
- Common rank
- #1,350
- Unicode
- U+989C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 颜
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 书中自有黄金屋，书中自有颜如玉 | lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb); fig. be diligent in your… | |
| 无颜见江东父老 | (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally r… | |
| 美颜相机 | BeautyCam, a smartphone app for retouching selfies (abbr. to 美顏|美颜[Mei3 yan2]) | |
| 开心颜 | to rejoice; smiling | |
| 颜文字 | Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶) | |
| 阿黑颜 | (ACG) ahegao (loanword from Japanese アヘ顔) | |
| 容颜失色 | (of complexion) to lose one's color; to blanch; to look wan | |
| 五颜六色 | multicolored; every color under the sun | |
| 喜笑颜开 | grinning from ear to ear (idiom); beaming with happiness | |
| 红颜薄命 | beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) | |
| 颜面扫地 | lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom; to be thoroughly discredited (idiom) | |
| 红颜知己 | close female friend; confidante | |
| 颜值高 | good-looking | |
| 颜体 | Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy) | |
| 面颜 | face | |
| 颜面 | face; prestige | |
| 开颜 | to smile; to beam | |
| 红颜祸水 | femme fatale | |
| 红颜 | a beautiful woman; young beauties; youths; rosy cheeks | |
| 颜色 | color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff |