Color in Chinese
color · HSK 2
颜色
- 颜 face
- 色 color
Counted with 种: 一种颜色
你最喜欢什么颜色？ What's your favorite color?
Other ways to say color
More words with 颜 or 色
How do you say color in Chinese?
Color in Chinese is 颜色 (yán sè). You can also say 彩色 (cǎi sè), 色彩 (sè cǎi).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.