HSK 5 · Adjectives

鲜艳 xiānyàn “bright-coloured” in Chinese

Traditional 鮮豔

What 鲜艳 means

  1. bright-coloured
  2. gaily-coloured

How to say 鲜艳

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale鲜xiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale艳yàn4th tone, falling

鲜艳 in a sentence

  1. 这种墨水颜色鲜艳。

    Zhè zhǒng mòshuǐ yánsè xiānyàn.

    This ink is a bright colour.

    Sentence #9992003 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 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

How 鲜艳 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 鲜 (xiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
鲜xiānfresh
  • 鱼fish · yúMeaning part
  • 羊sheep · yángSound part

鱼 hints at the meaning (fish); 羊 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiān.

The character 艳 (yàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
艳yànbright; fresh and attractive; glamorous
  • 丰abundant · fēng
  • 色colour · sè

How to write 鲜艳

鲜 14 strokes · 艳 10 strokes

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

Words related to 鲜艳

Words with 鲜

新鲜xīnxiān · fresh experience海鲜hǎixiān · seafood鲜明xiānmíng · distinct

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FAQs

鲜艳 (xiānyàn) means “bright-coloured” or “gaily-coloured”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xiānyàn: xiān with a 1st tone, then yàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 鲜艳 is written 鮮豔. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xianyan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 鲜艳 from the suggestions. Typing xianyan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
鲜艳 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.