毛色

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	colour; dice; look colour; dice; look; appearance
simp. and trad. (毛色)		毛	色

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): máosè

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄙㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ sik¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mô-set

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: máosè
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄙㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: máosè
  - Wade–Giles: mao²-sê⁴
  - Yale: máu-sè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mauseh
  - Palladius: маосэ (maosɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ sɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mou⁴ sik¹
  - Yale: mòuh sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ sɪk̚⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    模式
    無息 / 无息
    無色 / 无色
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mô-set
  - Hakka Romanization System: mo^ˊ sed^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mo¹ sed⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /mo²⁴ set̚²/

Noun

毛色

hair, fur or feather color

Japanese

Kanji in this term
毛	色
け Grade: 2	いろ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Etymology

毛(け) (ke, “hair; fur”) + 色(いろ) (iro, “color”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) けいろ [kèíró] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ke̞iɾo̞]

Noun

毛(け)色(いろ) • (keiro)

hair color; fur color
(figurative) disposition; nature; mettle
彼女(かのじょ)はほかの人(ひと)とは毛色(けいろ)が違(ちが)う。
Kanojo wa hoka no hito to wa keiro ga chigau.
She's not like other people.

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN