颜 yán
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 页 — page, sheet, leaf
- Made of
- 彦 elegant 页 page, sheet, leaf
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
颜色
yánsè
color
Characters in this word
色 sè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 色 — color, tint, hue, shade
- Made of
- ⺈ knife 巴 to cling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 颜色很好看。 Yán sè hěn hǎo kàn. The color looks very nice.
- 这个颜色好。 Zhè ge yán sè hǎo. This color is good.
- 颜色太亮了。 Yán sè tài liàng le. The color is too bright.