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颜
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Definitions
- 1. color
- 2. face
- 3. countenance
Words Containing 颜
shameless
shameless
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
close male friend
to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc)
someone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others)
lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom
good-looking
even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)
a face without makeup
to maintain a youthful appearance
to nourish one's skin
face
a beautiful woman
Bayan (name)
Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[yán yuān]
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河[huáng hé] Huang He river
multicolored
Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy)
see 素顏|素颜[sù yán]
solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
to blush with shame (literary)
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb)
brazen
(I'll) teach you a lesson
(of complexion) to lose one's color; to blanch; to look wan
close female friend
smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure
to smile
femme fatale
Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[kǒng fū zǐ], also known as 顏回|颜回[yán huí]
to rejoice
to pretend to look happy
paint
to break into a smile
amiable manner
mien
color
happy countenance
one's mother's loving face
Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
face
servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning
to ejaculate onto sb's face
Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
grinning from ear to ear (idiom)
multicolored
attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is)
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[xiàng yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)