颜 — Chinese character
颜
yán
face, facial appearance
- Pinyin
- yán
- Radical
- 181 ⾴ (Leaf)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 彦 页
- Formation
- pictophonetic — head; meaning component 页; sound component 彦
- Traditional
- 顏 顔
Common words with 颜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颜色 (顏色) | yán sè | color; countenance |
| 颜料 (顏料) | yán liào | paint; dye |
| 颜面 (顏面) | yán miàn | face; prestige |
| 容颜 (容顏) | róng yán | mien; complexion |
| 颜值 (顏值) | yán zhí | attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is) |
| 颜射 (顏射) | yán shè | to ejaculate onto sb's face |
| 五颜六色 (五顏六色) | wǔ yán liù sè | multicolored; every color under the sun |
| 红颜 (紅顏) | hóng yán | a beautiful woman; young beauties |
| 汗颜 (汗顏) | hàn yán | to blush with shame (literary) |
| 厚颜无耻 (厚顏無恥) | hòu yán wú chǐ | shameless |
| 美颜 (美顏) | měi yán | to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc); to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful |
| 素颜 (素顏) | sù yán | a face without makeup |
English words written with 颜
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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