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顏色

简颜色 · 繁顏色

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngaan4 sik1

(slang) someone's ability or captivity

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

ngaan44 · low fallingsik11 · high levelchecked · -k

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color 眼ngaan5eye 雁ngaan6wild goose

sik色sik1colorsik2—sik3—sik4—sik5—食sik6to eat

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

顏色颜

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

顏色 yán sè CC-CEDICT · Mandarincolor; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yan2 se4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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