颜 (顏) yán
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yán
noun
color
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 色彩 (Guoyu '顏' n 4) -
yán
proper noun
Yan
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
Notes: (Guoyu '顏' n 6) -
yán
noun
forehead
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 额头 (Guoyu '顏' n 1) -
yán
noun
complexion
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 脸色 (Guoyu '顏' n 2) -
yán
noun
honor; reputation
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 面子 (Guoyu '顏' n 3) -
yán
noun
a horizontal board with an inscription
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '顏' n 5)
Contained in
- 丙烯酸颜料(丙烯酸顏料) acrylic paint
- 承颜接辞(承顏接辭) to meet for a discussion
- 霁颜(霽顏) a clear sky after snow or rain
- 容颜失色(容顏失色) (of complexion) to lose one's color; to blanch; wan
- 各种颜色(各種顏色) multicolored; a variety of colors
- 颜平原(顏平原) Yan Pingyuan; Yan Zhenqing
- 五颜六色(五顏六色) many colors ; multi-colored
- 逞颜色(逞顏色) to relax one's facial expression
- 苍颜(蒼顏) very old
- 童颜(童顏) fresh complexion
- 颜体(顏體) calligraphic style of Yan Zhenqing
- 颜值(顏值) attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking somebody is)
- 颜面(顏面) face; complexion
- 和颜悦色(和顏悅色) pleasant countenance
- 蓝颜知己(藍顏知己) close male friend; confidant
- 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
- 红颜祸水(紅顏禍水) femme fatale
- 厚颜(厚顏) shameless
- 皓首苍颜(皓首蒼顏) white hair and gray sunken cheeks; decrepit old age
- 龙颜(龍顏) a brow bone resembling a dragon
- 颜料(顏料) a paint; a dye; a pigment
- 颜厚有忸怩(顏厚有忸怩) even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame
- 朱颜(朱顏) a rosy complexion ; a young appearance
- 强颜欢笑(強顏歡笑) to pretend to look happy; to force oneself to smile
- 颜真卿(顏真卿) Yan Zhenqing
- 颜色(顏色) color ; countenance; appearance; facial expression ; good looks ; pigment; dyestuff
- 颜控(顏控) someone who attaches great importance to good looks (especially in others)
- 颜值高(顏值高) good-looking
- 红颜知己(紅顏知己) close female friend; confidante
- 汗颜(汗顏) to blush with shame
- 正颜色(正顏色) to control facial expression
- 启颜(啟顏) to be happy; to smile
- 慈颜(慈顏) a kind face
- 厚颜无耻(厚顏無恥) shameless
- 开心颜(開心顏) to rejoice; smiling
- 颜鲁公(顏魯公) Yan Lugong; Yan Zhenqing
- 巴颜喀拉(巴顏喀拉) Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Also contained in
颜延之 、 颜斶 、 伯颜 、 颜之推 、 颜氏家训 、 完颜氏 、 颜师古 、 完颜宗尧 、 完颜阿骨打 、 完颜希尹 、 完颜允恭 、 完颜宗峻 、 颜杲卿
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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
- 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
- 第八十七回 Chapter 87 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 31
- 第六十三回 Chapter 63 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 30
- 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 22
- 卷四十五 Scroll 45 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
- 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 19
- 卷九 Scroll 9 Wenxuan 文選 — 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
- 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
- 颜咫尺 (顏咫尺) 天威不違顏咫尺 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 不违颜 (不違顏) 天威不違顏咫尺 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3