颜
yánYán HSK2

face

颜 (顏) yán frequency
color noun
color or pigment

这种天然颜料是从植物根茎中提取的。

zhè zhǒng tiān​rán yán​liào shì cóng zhí​wù gēn​jīng zhōng tí​qǔ de.

This natural pigment is extracted from the roots and stems of plants.

face noun
face, facial expression, or countenance

他脸上露出了欢快的笑颜。

tā liǎn shàng lù​chū le huān​kuài de xiào​yán.

A cheerful smile appeared on his face.

颜 (顏) Yán
Yan proper name
surname Yan

颜先生是一位著名的画家。

Yán xiān​sheng shì yī wèi zhù​míng de huà​jiā.

Mr. Yan is a famous painter.

颜 (顔) yán
face noun
Japanese variant of 颜 yán (face/color)

他的颜值很高。

tā de yán​zhí hěn gāo.

He is very good-looking.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,545th most common 66.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,473rd most common 45.2 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.55 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
24.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
顏顔
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+989C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)