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颜 Yán

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颜 Yán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Yán | Yan2
English translation
surname Yan
color
face
countenance
Japanese variant of 顏 yán
>颜 Yán [yán]
face, facial appearance

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About 颜 Yán

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

顏 yán

Contains the radical

页 yè

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

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Etymology of 颜 Yán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⿰彦页

Semantic compound

页 yè

Phonetic compound

彦 yàn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 页 yè represents the meaning and 彦 yàn represents the sound. Simplified form of 顏 yán .

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Example sentences using 颜 Yán

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她 tā 的 de 厚 hòu 颜 Yán 使 shǐ 我 wǒ 大为 dà wéi 吃惊 chījīng .

Her impudence bowled me over.

他们 tā men 能 Néng 分辨 fēnbiàn 上 shǎng 百 Bǎi 种 zhǒng 颜色 yánsè .

They can discriminate hundreds of colours.

新 Xīn 刷 shuā 的 de 漆 qī 颜色 yánsè 较浅, 使 shǐ 原来 yuánlái 的漆显露 xiǎn lù 出来 chū lái .

The new color is lighter, and the old paint shows through.

她 tā 明白 míngbai 自己 zìjǐ 强 Qiáng 作 zuò 欢颜是 shì 瞒 mán 不 bù 了 le 谁 shuí 的 de .

She knew that her efforts to feign cheerfulness weren't convincing.

妈妈 māma 看到我 wǒ 头发 tóufa 染成这种 zhè zhǒng 颜色 yánsè 会 huì 火冒三丈 huǒ mào sān zhàng 的 de .

My mum'll have hysterics when she sees the colour of my hair.

Words with 颜 Yán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
颜色 yánsè color顏色
颜 Yán color顏 yán
颜料 yán liào paint顏料
颜面 yán miàn face顏面
容颜 róng yán mien容顏
红颜 hóng yán youths紅顏
五颜六色 wǔ yán liù sè multi-colored五顏六色
汗颜 hàn yán to blush with shame (literary)汗顏
喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi beaming with happiness喜笑顏開
笑逐颜开 xiào zhú yán kāi all smiles笑逐顏開
强颜欢笑 qiǎng yán huān xiào to pretend to look happy強顏歡笑
和颜悦色 hé yán yuè sè amiable manner和顏悅色
厚颜无耻 hòu yán wú chǐ shameless厚顏無恥
颜真卿 Yán Zhēn qīng Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty顏真卿
开颜 kāi yán to smile開顏
厚颜 hòu yán shameless厚顏
红颜薄命 hóng yán bó mìng beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)紅顏薄命
颜渊 Yán Yuān Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子 Kǒng fū zǐ [Kǒng​fū​zǐ], also known as 顏回|颜回 Yán Huí [Yán​Huí]顏淵
奴颜婢膝 nú yán bì xī bending and scraping to curry favor奴顏婢膝
颜体 yán tǐ Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy)顏體

颜 Yán Decomposition & Compounds

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颜 Yán Decomposition

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