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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

变色

biànsè

to change color

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to change color

02

to discolor

03

to change countenance

04

to become angry

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 变色 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 变色 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

秋天的时候,树叶变色凋落。qiū tiān de shí hòu, shù yè biàn sè diāo luò。

No published English translation for this sentence.

因为是极其紧急的情况,信号灯刚一变色,父亲就启动了车。yīn wèi shì jí qí jǐn jí de qíng kuàng, xìn hào dēng gāng yī biàn sè, fù qīn jiù qǐ dòng le chē。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 变色.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 变色.

Directly before

  • 树叶变色1
  • 刚一变色1

Directly after

  • 变色凋落1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 变色

What does 变色 mean in Chinese?

变色 (biànsè) means to change color.

How do you pronounce 变色?

变色 is pronounced biànsè.

Is 变色 an HSK word?

变色 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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