颜色
yán sè
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 顏色
Colour. The everyday word for the colour of clothes, paint, eyes or anything else.
Màu, màu sắc. Là từ thường ngày để nói về màu của quần áo, sơn, mắt hay bất cứ thứ gì.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 颜/顏 = nhan; etymology of “nhan sắc” = 顏色 · Vietnamese false friend: Idiomer entry “nhan sắc” (nhan-sac). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “颜色” mean?
Colour. The everyday word for the colour of clothes, paint, eyes or anything else. Literally: face colour
Is “颜色” formal or informal?
颜色 is generally neutral.