surname Yan

= + : Han Yanzhi (彦) is mad at Maud Younger (y) for messing up his plants, so he wants to teach her a lesson (给点颜色看看). In the anthill's kitchen (an2) he sticks flypaper (页) of all colors (颜) on Maud's body to make sure that she never comes back.
color / face / countenance

= + : Han Yanzhi (彦) is mad at Maud Younger (y) for messing up his plants, so he wants to teach her a lesson (给点颜色看看). In the anthill's kitchen (an2) he sticks flypaper (页) of all colors (颜) on Maud's body to make sure that she never comes back.

顏 character breakdown

accomplished / elegant

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 韩彦直 han2 yan4zhi2, a song dynasty botanist.

Maud Younger (y) put on a fake Santa Claus beard (彡) to go and see Han Yanzhi (彦) work in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Han Yanzhi is preparing his beautiful and accomplished (彦) plants on an assembly belt (产). As Maud comes close to the assembly belt her fake beard is caught by a cogwheel, making the assembly belt shake wildly and throwing off all the plants.
head
page / leaf

= + : mnemonic symbol: a sheet of paper.

= + : It's just too hot in Greece for the crab, so it wants to return to the ocean. Inside of the elevator's bathroom, Maud Younger helps it to do so. The plan is to just flush it down the toilet. The toilet is operated with the help of wind power, but there's no wind today. Maud Younger makes short work, grabs to sheets of paper and waves them towards the wind wheel until it turns really quickly. Finally the crab can return home.

Characters with 顏 as component

顏 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 顏

mien / complexion
multicolored / every color under the sun
to blush with shame (literary)
grinning from ear to ear (idiom) / beaming with happiness
amiable manner / pleasant countenance
servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning / bending and scraping to curry favor
(of complexion) to lose one's color / to blanch / wan
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] Huang He river
to pretend to look happy / to force oneself to smile
one's mother's loving face
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb) / fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow
solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
(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)
white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age
to break into a smile / (of flowers) to open
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
multicolored / a variety of colors

Sentences with 顏

顏 currently does not appear in any sentence.