COLOUR    顏色

APPEARANCE of SURFACES which REFLECT OR ISSUE LIGHT, PERCEIVED USING the EYES.
HUE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for colour of any kind is sè 色. 2. Cǎi 采 normally refers to colours coexisting with others on one object. 3. Yán 顏 "face" is perhaps occasionally used to refer to colour but no early examples are very telling.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 ART 11. 采，特指尚未施用之五色顏料，泛指五色。 色，施用顏料後所呈現出的五色。 繡，兼指繪畫和刺繡的設色五彩俱備。 絢，五色交織。
Modern Chinese Criteria
顏色 彩色 色 彩 色彩 色澤 色調 PAINT: 顏料 顏色 水彩 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BLACK　INTENSELY DARK COLOUR of THINGS LACKING LIGHT. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • DARK　COLOUR LACKING BRIGHTNESS. (anc: 6/0, child: 1)
  • RED　The COLOUR of CHERRIES ETC.. [] (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • WHITE　COLOUR RESEMBLING COLOUR of FRESH SNOW. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • YELLOW　COLOUR RESEMBLING the COLOUR of LEMON PEEL. (anc: 6/0, child: 1)
  • GREEN　COLOUR TYPICALLY RESEMBLING that of LEAVES IN SPRING. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • BLUE　COLOUR of the SKY AND the DEEP SEA. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • GREY　 (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
See also
  • PAINTSMEAR USING LIQUID so as to CAUSE something TO HAVE COLOUR.
Hypernym
  • APPEARANCE　CLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES. (anc: 4/0, child: 6)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • A look at the history of Chinese colour terminology Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association ( BAXTER 1983) p.

  • Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution ( BERLIN KAY 1969) p.

    See also the 2006 new detailed report on 90 languages by a team including the same authors.

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 16.61

  • Semantica del Griego Antiguo ( HERNANDEZ 2000) p. 42n172

  • Studies in Greek Colour Terminology Mnemonyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum ( MAXWELL-STUART 1981) p.

  • Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 931

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1916

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 2.908

  • Kleine Schriften Deutsche Ostasienstudien ( UNGER 2009) p. 1-8

  • 語言學論集 ( ZHANG YONGYAN 1992) p. 100-135

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 365

  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 1.115

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 78

  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

    COLOURS

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Second Edition ( BROWN 2005) p.

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 3.305

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 2.289:192

    COULEUR.COLORIS

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.215.175

    COULEUR.COLORIS

    • Words (10 items)

    色  sè OC: sqrɯɡ MC: ʂɨk 28 Attributions

    The standard word for colour of any kind is sè 色.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 聲/SOUND The dominant word for any sound produced by any creature or instrument is shēng 聲and the word can come to refer specifically to the sound produced by the human voice (see VOICE), hence the word can also refer to a song with a melody and also to the tones as making up a melody. See SONG.
    • Assoc: 顏/COLOUR Yán 顏 "face" is perhaps occasionally used to refer to colour but no early examples are very telling.

      Syntactic words
    • n[adN]subjectcoloured object of any kind
    • nab.post-V{NUM}stativecolour
    • nabfeaturecolour; colours
    • npost-Ncolour of N
    • vibe or become coloured
    • vtoNcausativecause (oneself) to have colour
    • vtoNfigurativegive its proper appearance and colour
    采  cǎi OC: tshɯɯʔ MC: tshəi 9 Attributions

    Cǎi 采 normally refers to colours coexisting with others on one object.

      Syntactic words
    • ncccolour 五采
    • vadNcolourful, flashy; varicoloured; painted
    五色  wǔ sè sè shǎi MC: nguX srik  OC: ŋaaʔ sqrɯɡ 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialall sorts of colour, colours in generalLZ
    白黑  bái hēi MC: baek xok OC: braaɡ hmɯɯɡ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPab{nab1ant.nab2}black and whiteLZ
    采色  cǎi sè OC: tshɯɯʔ sqrɯɡ MC: tshəi ʂɨk 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP{N1=N2}pluralall sorts of (fancy) colours
    顏  yán OC: ŋraan MC: ŋɣan 2 Attributions

    Yán 顏 "face" is perhaps occasionally used to refer to colour but no early examples are very telling.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 色/COLOUR The standard word for colour of any kind is sè 色.

      Syntactic words
    • nabstativecolour
    五色  wǔ sè MC: nguX srik OC: ŋaaʔ sqrɯɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPthe five basic colours 青赤黃白黑CH
    青黃  qīng huáng MC: tsheng hwang OC: tsheeŋ ɡʷaaŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe of a mixed green/brown colourDS
    彩  cǎi OC: tshɯɯʔ MC: tshəi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabcolour, decoration
    物  wù OC: mɯd MC: mi̯ut 0 Attributions

    Wù 物 refers specifically to the colour of the fur of animals, but by extension also to such things as the colour of the clouds.

      Syntactic words
    • nabfeaturecolour as a significant feature of something ZHOULI 以五雲之物辨吉凶 distinguish between auspicious and