Is it purple?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
紫色
purple
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
purple
02
violet (color)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 紫色 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 紫色 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
His socks are purple.
This flower is violet in color.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 紫色.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 紫色.
Directly before
- 是紫色4
- 开著紫色2
- 了紫色2
- 就是紫色1
- 一只紫色1
Directly after
- 紫色的13
- 紫色花朵2
- 紫色为主1
- 紫色茎秆1
- 紫色好看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 紫色
What does 紫色 mean in Chinese?
紫色 (zǐsè) means purple.
How do you pronounce 紫色?
紫色 is pronounced zǐsè.
Is 紫色 an HSK word?
紫色 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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