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You might be very exciting if you see a beautiful rainbow across the sky after a heavy rain,it describes an arch of colours in the sky. But have you noticed what colours the rainbow have? Rainbows come into sight in seven colors as water droplets break sunlight into the seven colors of the spectrum, and always in this order:

hóng
红
RED

chéng
橙
ORANGE

huáng
黄
YELLOW

lǜ
绿
GREEN

qīng
青
CYAN

lán
蓝
BLUE

zǐ
紫
VIOLET

Other color words to describe things on a daily basis:

hēi
黑
BLANK

bái
白
WHITE

fěn
粉
PINK

huī
灰
GREY

jīn
金
GOLD

yín
银
SILVER

Chinese words about color end with “sè”. In other words, when we describe things with colors, we basically say “____-colored _____”.For example, the sky is blue,we usually said” tian kong shi lan se de”.

 

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