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.
Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]

= + : 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.

颜 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 颜 as component

颜 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 颜

a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks
a face without makeup
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
see 素顏|素颜[su4 yan2]
to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc) / to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful / beautiful face / beautified face
BeautyCam, a smartphone app for retouching selfies (abbr. to 美顏|美颜[Mei3 yan2])
close male friend / confidant
to smile / to beam
attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is)
even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)
Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[Yan2 Yuan1]
to ejaculate onto sb's face
someone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others)
close female friend / confidante

Sentences with 颜

颜 currently does not appear in any sentence.