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色
Mandarin · pinyin sè#
Meanings · sè
- color
- Classifier: 種 zhǒng
- look
- appearance
- sex
Mandarin · pinyin shǎi#
Meanings · shǎi
- (coll.) color
- used in 色子 shǎi zi
Characters in this entry
- 色
- sè · color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty; Kangxi radical 139
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Mandarin tones
4 · se4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 13 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sik1
Cantonese word readings for 色. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- color; tint; hue; shade (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) look; expression
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) scenery; circumstance
- kind; sort
- feminine charm; beauty
- lust; sexual desire
- (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
- theatrical role
- metallic content
- die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) (Classifier: 粒 c)
- (Buddhism) rūpa (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
- (transgender slang) short for 色普龍／色普龙; cypro (cyproterone acetate)
- a surname
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