颜 (顏) yán

1. yán noun color
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 色彩 (Guoyu '顏' n 4)
2. yán proper noun Yan
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
   Notes: (Guoyu '顏' n 6)
3. yán noun forehead; face
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 额头 (Guoyu '顏' n 1; Unihan '顏')
4. yán noun complexion
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 脸色 (Guoyu '顏' n 2; Unihan '顏')
5. yán noun honor; reputation
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 面子 (Guoyu '顏' n 3)
6. yán noun a horizontal board with an inscription
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '顏' n 5)

Contained in

• 启颜(啟顏) to be happy; to smile
• 红颜(紅顏) a beautiful woman; young beauties; youths; rosy cheeks
• 颜面(顏面) face; complexion
• 颜貌(顏貌) complexion; countenance
• 碧眼童颜(碧眼童顏) bright eyes and fresh complexion
• 素颜(素顏) a face without makeup
• 巴颜喀拉(巴顏喀拉) Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
• 颜料(顏料) a paint; a dye; a pigment
• 颜面扫地(顏面掃地) for one's face to reach rock bottom; to be thoroughly discredited
• 笑逐颜开(笑逐顏開) smile across one's face
• 颜体(顏體) calligraphic style of Yan Zhenqing
• 红颜祸水(紅顏禍水) femme fatale
• 红颜知己(紅顏知己) close female friend; confidante
• 厚颜(厚顏) shameless
• 皓首苍颜(皓首蒼顏) white hair and gray sunken cheeks; decrepit old age
• 颜值(顏值) attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking somebody is)
• 颜勤礼碑(顏勤禮碑) Yan Family Ceremony Inscription
• 天颜(天顏) the emperor's facial expression
• 颜色(顏色) color ; countenance; appearance; facial expression ; good looks ; pigment; dyestuff
• 容颜(容顔) countenance; complexion; personage
• 红颜薄命(紅顏薄命) beautiful women suffer unhappy fates
• 颜控(顏控) someone who attaches great importance to good looks (especially in others)
• 书中自有黄金屋，书中自有颜如玉(書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顏如玉) in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies
• 赬颜(赬顏) a blushing complexion
• 咫尺天颜(咫尺天顏) a close advisor to the emperor
• 颜平原(顏平原) Yan Pingyuan; Yan Zhenqing
• 颜真卿(顏真卿) Yan Zhenqing
• 给你点颜色看看(給你點顏色看看) (I'll) teach you a lesson; put you in your place
• 驻颜(駐顏) to maintain a youthful appearance
• 承颜接辞(承顏接辭) to meet for a discussion
• 无颜见江东父老(無顏見江東父老) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure
• 颜厚有忸怩(顏厚有忸怩) even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame
• 霁颜(霽顏) a clear sky after snow or rain
• 慈颜(慈顏) a kind face
• 五颜六色(五顏六色) many colors ; multi-colored
• 厚颜无耻(厚顏無恥) shameless
• 朱颜(朱顏) a rosy complexion ; a young appearance
• 颜射(顏射) to ejaculate onto somebody's face
• 养颜(養顏) to nourish one's skin; to maintain a youthful appearance
• 颜文字(顏文字) Japanese-style emoticon

Also contained in

完颜宗尧 、 颜子 、 完颜氏 、 颜氏家训 、 颜杲卿 、 颜延之 、 完颜希尹 、 完颜阿骨打 、 完颜允恭 、 完颜石鲁 、 完颜宗峻

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• 卷一百六十一 列傳第一百十一: 李光進 烏重胤 王沛 李珙 李祐 董重質 楊元卿 劉悟 劉沔 石雄 Volume 161 Biographies 111: Li Guangjin, Wu Zhongyin, Wang Pei, Li Gong, Li You, Dong Zhongzhi, Yang Yuanqing, Liu Wu, Liu Mian, Shi Xiong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 67
• 卷一百七十一　　列傳第九十六 李烏王楊曹高劉石 Volume 171 Biographies 96: Li, Wu, Wang, Yang, Cao, Gao, Liu, Shi New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 38
• 第八十七回 Chapter 87 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 31
• 卷二百二十二 列傳第一百一十 譚綸 王崇古 方逢時 吳兌 鄭洛 張學顏 張佳胤 殷正茂 凌雲翼 Volume 222 Biographies 110: Tan Lun, Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi, Wu Dui, Zheng Luo, Zhang Xueyan, Zhang Jiayin, Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi History of Ming 明史 — count: 31
• 第六十三回 Chapter 63 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 30
• 卷四十五 Scroll 45 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 22
• 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 22
• 卷三百六十九 列傳第一百二十八 張俊 張宗顏 劉光世 王淵 解元 曲端 Volume 369 Biographies 128: Zhang Jun, Zhang Zongyan, Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan, Jie Yuan, Qu Duan History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
• 卷九 Scroll 9 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 19
• 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 19

Collocations

• 颜氏 (顏氏) 有顏氏之儒 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 顯學第五十 Chapter 50: Scholarly Achievement — count: 13
• 颜聚 (顏聚) 趙怱及齊將顏聚代之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《趙世家》 House of Zhao — count: 7
• 颜涿 (顏涿) 召顏涿聚之子晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 5
• 颜忠 (顏忠) 坐同族耿歙與楚人顏忠辭語相連 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十一 任李萬邳劉耿列傳 Volume 21: Biographies of Ren, Li, Wan, Pi, Liu, Geng — count: 5
• 颜安乐 (顏安樂) 與顏安樂俱事眭孟 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十八 儒林傳 Volume 88: Confucian Scholars — count: 5
• 颜山 (顏山) 北至闐顏山趙信城而還 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《匈奴列傳》 Treatise on the Xiongnu — count: 5
• 商颜 (商顏) 自徵引洛水至商顏山下 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《河渠書》 Rivers and canals — count: 4
• 颜鸣 (顏鳴) 林雍羞為顏鳴右 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 颜路 (顏路) 顏路請子之車以為之椁 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 11. 《先進》 Xian Jin — count: 3
• 杀颜 (殺顏) 有能為我殺殺顏者 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3