It is pitch dark.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天色
color of the sky
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
color of the sky
02
time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky
03
weather
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天色 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天色 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The sky darkened.
It became dark before I knew it.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天色.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天色.
Directly before
- 从天色2
- 知道天色1
- 外面天色1
- 随着天色1
- 的天色1
Directly after
- 天色变暗3
- 天色很1
- 天色开始1
- 天色越来越1
- 天色上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 天色
What does 天色 mean in Chinese?
天色 (tiānsè) means color of the sky.
How do you pronounce 天色?
天色 is pronounced tiānsè.
Is 天色 an HSK word?
天色 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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