🎨 Colours

Unit 5 · Daily life & the body (HSK 2) · 7 min

Ask: 你喜欢什么颜色？ — 我喜欢红色 "I like red." Colours often take 色: 红色 red, 白色 white, 黑色 black. In China red is the lucky, festive colour.

Words in this lesson

• 颜色 (yán sè) — colour
• 红 (hóng) — red
• 白 (bái) — white
• 黑 (hēi) — black
• 红色 (hóng sè) — red (colour)
• 黄 (huáng) — yellow

Project: Say in Chinese the colours of the clothes you are wearing today.