灰白 (huī bái) — grayish white; ashen; pale

Definition

adjective
grayish whiteashenpale

Examples

  • 灰白。
    Tā chuān zhuó yí jiàn huī bái de lián yī qún.
    She is wearing a grayish white dress.
  • 灰白,。
    Tā de liǎn sè huī bái, kàn qǐ lái shēng bìng le.
    His face was ashen; he looked ill.
  • 灰白,。
    Tiān kōng yí piàn huī bái, hǎo xiàng yào xià yǔ le.
    The sky was a grayish white, as if it were going to rain.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

白báiwhite

灰 says gray and 白 says white, so the color is white tinged with gray.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

灰 shows 火 (fire) that can be touched by 又 (hand), meaning ash.

Open 灰 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

白 is thought to picture either an acorn or a human head.

Open 白 →

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