| 顏 | [ yán ] surname Yan |
| 顏 | [ yán ] color, face, countenance |
| 顏值 | [ yán zhí ] attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is) |
| 顏值高 | [ yán zhí gaō ] good-looking |
| 顏厚 | [ yán hoù ] brazen |
| 顏厚有忸怩 | [ yán hoù yoǔ niǔ ní ] even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom) |
| 顏回 | [ yán huí ] Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[Yan2 Yuan1] |
| 顏射 | [ yán shè ] to ejaculate onto sb's face |
| 顏控 | [ yán kòng ] someone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others) |
| 顏文字 | [ yán wén zì ] Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶) |
| 顏料 | [ yán ] paint, dye, pigment |
| 顏淵 | [ yán yuān ] Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as 顏回|颜回[Yan2 Hui2] |
| 顏真卿 | [ yán zhēn qīng ] Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty |
| 顏色 | [ yán sè ] color, countenance, appearance, facial expression, pigment, dyestuff |
| 顏面 | [ yán miàn ] face, prestige |
| 顏面掃地 | [ yán miàn saǒ dì ] lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom, to be thoroughly discredited (idiom) |
| 顏體 | [ yán tǐ ] Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy) |
| ⇒ 五顏六色 | [ wǔ yán liù sè ] multi-colored, every color under the sun |
| ⇒ 伯顏 | [ bà yán ] Bayan (name), Bayan of the Baarin (1236-1295), Mongol Yuan general under Khubilai Khan, victorious over the Southern Song 1235-1239, Bayan of the Merkid (-1340), Yuan dynasty general and politician |
| ⇒ 厚顏 | [ hoù yán ] shameless |
| ⇒ 厚顏無恥 | [ hoù yán wú chǐ ] shameless |
| ⇒ 各種顏色 | [ gè zhǒng yán sè ] multicolored, a variety of colors |
| ⇒ 和顏悅色 | [ hé yán yuè sè ] amiable manner, pleasant countenance |
| ⇒ 喜笑顏開 | [ xǐ yán kaī ] grinning from ear to ear (idiom), beaming with happiness |
| ⇒ 奴顏婢膝 | [ nú yán bì xī ] servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning, bending and scraping to curry favor |
| ⇒ 容顏 | [ róng yán ] mien, complexion |
| ⇒ 容顏失色 | [ róng yán shī sè ] (of complexion) to lose one's color, to blanch, wan |
| ⇒ 巴顏喀拉 | [ bā yán kā lā ] Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] Huang He river |
| ⇒ 強顏歡笑 | [ qiǎng yán huān ] to pretend to look happy, to force oneself to smile |
| ⇒ 怡顏悅色 | [ yí yán yuè sè ] happy countenance |
| ⇒ 慈顏 | [ cí yán ] one's mother's loving face |
| ⇒ 書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顏如玉 | [ shū zhōng zì yoǔ huáng jīn wū shū zhōng zì yoǔ yán rú yù ] lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb), fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow |
| ⇒ 正顏厲色 | [ zhèng yán lì sè ] solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling |
| ⇒ 汗顏 | [ hàn yán ] to blush with shame (literary) |
| ⇒ 無顏見江東父老 | [ wú yán jiàn jiāng dōng fù laǒ ] (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat) |
| ⇒ 皓首蒼顏 | [ haò shoǔ cāng yán ] white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age |
| ⇒ 破顏 | [ pò yán ] to break into a smile, (of flowers) to open |
| ⇒ 笑逐顏開 | [ zhú yán kaī ] smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure, all smiles, joy written across one's face |
| ⇒ 紅顏 | [ hóng yán ] a beautiful woman, young beauties, youths, rosy cheeks |
| ⇒ 紅顏知己 | [ hóng yán zhī jǐ ] close female friend, confidante |
| ⇒ 紅顏禍水 | [ hóng yán huò shuǐ ] femme fatale |
| ⇒ 紅顏薄命 | [ hóng yán bó mìng ] beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) |
| ⇒ 純素顏 | [ chún sù yán ] see 素顏|素颜[su4 yan2] |
| ⇒ 素顏 | [ sù yán ] a face without makeup |
| ⇒ 給你點顏色看看 | [ geǐ nǐ diǎn yán sè kàn kan ] (I'll) teach you a lesson, put you in your place |
| ⇒ 美顏 | [ meǐ yán ] to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc), to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful, beautiful face, beautified face |
| ⇒ 美顏相機 | [ meǐ yán xiàng jī ] BeautyCam, a smartphone app for retouching selfies (abbr. to 美顏|美颜[Mei3 yan2]) |
| ⇒ 藍顏知己 | [ lán yán zhī jǐ ] close male friend, confidant |
| ⇒ 開心顏 | [ kaī xīn yán ] to rejoice, smiling |
| ⇒ 開顏 | [ kaī yán ] to smile, to beam |
| ⇒ 面顏 | [ miàn yán ] face |
| ⇒ 養顏 | [ yǎng yán ] to nourish one's skin, to maintain a youthful appearance |
| ⇒ 駐顏 | [ zhù yán ] to maintain a youthful appearance |