颜

yán

color

surname Yan; face; countenance; Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]

talent/sound (彦) + head/face (页) = face and color

页 depicts the head and face, anchoring the meaning of countenance and appearance. 彦 contributes the sound yán and plays no semantic role here.

彦+页→颜
彦Talented personPhonetic
页HeadSemantic

她的颜色搭配得很好看。

tā de yán sè dā pèi de hěn hǎo kàn。

The colors she put together look very nice.

他厚着脸皮,真是厚颜无耻。

tā hòu zhe liǎn pí, zhēn shì hòu yán wú chǐ。

He has such thick skin — he is truly shameless.

Words with 颜

喜笑颜开

xǐ xiào yán kāi

grinning from ear to ear (idiom)

颜值

yán zhí

attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is)

面颜

miàn yán

face

开心颜

kāi xīn yán

to rejoice

开颜

kāi yán

to smile

阿嘿颜

ā hēi yán

variant of 阿黑顏|阿黑颜[a1 hei1 yan2]

阿黑颜

ā hēi yán

(ACG) ahegao (loanword from Japanese アヘ顔)

颜值高

yán zhí gāo

good-looking

颜厚

yán hòu

brazen

颜厚有忸怩

yán hòu yǒu niǔ ní

even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)

颜回

yán huí

Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[Yan2 Yuan1]

颜射

yán shè

to ejaculate onto sb's face

More characters with 彦

谚