He has a habit of looking down on coloured people.
有色人种
colored races
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Meaning and common use
colored races
How 有色人种 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 有色人种 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom doesn't like to use the term "a person of color" because he thinks it implies that white people have no color.
Words that keep company with 有色人种.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 有色人种.
Directly before
- 瞧不起有色人种1
Directly after
- 有色人种的1
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.
About 有色人种
What does 有色人种 mean in Chinese?
有色人种 (yǒusèrénzhǒng) means colored races.
How do you pronounce 有色人种?
有色人种 is pronounced yǒusèrénzhǒng.
Is 有色人种 an HSK word?
有色人种 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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