色
Meanings
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- 1.color
- 2.CL:种[zhǒng]
- 3.look
- 4.appearance
- 5.sex
- 1.(coll.) color
- 2.used in 色子[shǎi zi]
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Wiktionary
- 1.color; tint; hue; shade (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- 2.look; expression
- 3.scenery; circumstance
- 4.kind; sort
- 5.feminine charm; beauty
- 6.lust; sexual desire
- 7.perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
- 8.theatrical role
- 9.metallic content
- 10.die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) (Classifier: 粒 c)
- 11.rūpa (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
- 12.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 爪 (“claw; hand”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”). It depicts a hand pressing down on a kneeling person. 色 was an ancient form of 印; they both originally meant "to press down", meaning now written with 抑. The character was later borrowed phonetically to mean "color". Shuowen interprets this character as an Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person; human”) + 卪, which refers to the expression, vitality or complexion of a person's face. Sometimes, especially in folk etymology, the character is misinterpreted as a proto-form of 絕. The bottom part is unrelated to 巴. Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srək (“ashamed; shy”), whence Burmese ရှက် (hrak, “ashamed; shy”), Japhug tɤ-zraʁ (“shame”) (Schuessler, 2007; Jacques, 2015b). Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) connects this word to Mizo sâr (“prismatic colours seen in the sky in fine weather; to be healthy-looking, ruddy”), which would point to a form *sər-k from which the Old Chinese was derived. 彩 (OC *s.r̥ˤəʔ, “colour”) may be a dialectal variant (Baxter, 1992; Baxter and Sagart, 2014).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
是綠色。
It's green.
他面有飢色
He had a hungry look.
綠色適合你。
Green suits you.
蛋黃是黃色的。
Yolks are yellow.
我要紅色的鞋子。
I wanted red shoes.
鋇是什麼顏色的？
What color is barium?
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