HSK 6 · Adjectives

棕色 zōngsè “brown” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 棕色 means

  1. brown

How to say 棕色

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale棕zōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale色sè4th tone, falling

棕色 in a sentence

  1. 我最喜欢的颜色是棕色。

    Wǒ zuì xǐhuan de yánsè shì zōngsè.

    My favourite colour is brown.

    Sentence #12686374 from Tatoeba

  2. 那个穿棕色大衣的女人是谁？

    Nà ge chuān zōngsè dàyī de nǚrén shì shéi?

    Who’s the woman in the brown coat?

    Sentence #333078 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我想要棕色的鞋，不是黑色的。

    Wǒ xiǎngyào zōngsè de xié, bú shì hēisè de.

    I want brown shoes, not black ones.

    Sentence #3667817 from Tatoeba

How 棕色 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 棕 (zōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
棕zōngpalm
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 宗ancestry · zōngSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 宗 (zōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zōng.

The character 色 (sè) with each of its parts in a different colour
色sècolour
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 巴to desire · bā

How to write 棕色

棕 12 strokes · 色 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

棕色 (zōngsè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 棕色 (zōngsè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 棕色

Words with 色

颜色yánsè · colour白色báisè · white黑色hēisè · black红色hóngsè · red (colour)绿色lǜsè · green黄色huángsè · yellow景色jǐngsè · scenery出色chūsè · remarkable角色juésè · role色彩sècǎi · colour

More words: Adjectives

好hǎo · good大dà · big小xiǎo · small多duō · many自发zìfā · spontaneous滋润zīrùn · moist自主zìzhǔ · independent纵横zònghéng · in all directions

FAQs

棕色 (zōngsè) means “brown”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zōngsè: zōng with a 1st tone, then sè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 棕色 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zongse with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 棕色 from the suggestions. Typing zongse into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
棕色 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.