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颜 — color; face; countenance

Pinyin
yán · Yán
Strokes
15
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — yán, Yán — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 颜: 15 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

颜 — 15 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 颜

Words with 颜 in the HSK syllabus: 3

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 颜色yánsècolor; countenance; appearance; facial expressionHSK 2
  2. 五颜六色wǔyán-liùsèmulticolored; every color under the sunHSK 5
  3. 容颜róngyánmien; complexionHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.