HSK 5 · Media

色彩 sècǎi “colour” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 色彩 means

  1. colour
  2. flavour
  3. tint
  4. colouring
  5. colouration
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (fig.) flavour
  • character

How to say 色彩

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale色sè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale彩cǎi3rd tone, dipping

色彩 in a sentence

  1. 他看见色彩鲜艳的鸟、花朵和树叶。

    Tā kànjiàn sècǎi xiānyàn de niǎo, huāduǒ hé shùyè.

    He saw brightly coloured birds, flowers and leaves.

    Sentence #334695 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 胡萝卜为我的餐点增添了色彩。

    Húluóbo wèi wǒ de cāndiǎn zēngtiān le sècǎi.

    Carrots add colour to my meals.

    Sentence #13543147 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她从姜黄里提取美丽色彩。

    Tā cóng jiānghuáng lǐ tíqǔ měilì sècǎi.

    She extracts beautiful colours from turmeric.

    Sentence #10021235 from Tatoeba

How 色彩 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 色 (sè) with each of its parts in a different colour
色sècolour
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 巴to desire · bā
The character 彩 (cǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
彩cǎicolour
  • 采to collect · cǎiSound part
  • 彡bristle · shānMeaning part

彡 hints at the meaning (bristle); 采 (cǎi) hints at the sound. Compare it with cǎi.

How to write 色彩

色 6 strokes · 彩 11 strokes

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

Words related to 色彩

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特色tèsè · distinctive feature

Words with 彩

精彩jīngcǎi · wonderful彩虹cǎihóng · rainbow彩票cǎipiào · lottery ticket剪彩jiǎncǎi · to cut the ribbon (at an opening ceremony)光彩guāngcǎi · glory

More words: Media & Arts

美术měishù · art媒体méitǐ · media明星míngxīng · star频道píndào · frequency摄影shèyǐng · to take a photograph神话shénhuà · legend诗shī · poem文学wénxué · literature

FAQs

色彩 (sècǎi) means “colour” or “flavour”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it sècǎi: sè with a 4th tone, then cǎi with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 色彩 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type secai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 色彩 from the suggestions. Typing secai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
色彩 is an HSK 5 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.