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HSK
multicolored / every color under the sun
HSK 4
color / countenance / appearance / facial expression / pigment / dyestuff
HSK 2
smiling face
amiable manner / pleasant countenance
Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
femme fatale
attractiveness index (rating of how good-looking sb is)
close female friend / confidante
to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc) / to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful / beautiful face / beautified face
good-looking
to ejaculate onto sb's face
to break into a smile / (of flowers) to open
servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning / bending and scraping to curry favor
a face without makeup
grinning from ear to ear (idiom) / beaming with happiness
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河 Huang He river
BeautyCam, a smartphone app for retouching selfies (abbr. to 美顏|美颜)
Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy)
close male friend / confidant
shameless
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb) / fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow
Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)
happy countenance
brazen
lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom / to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)
Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊
someone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others)
white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age
(ACG) ahegao (loanword from Japanese アヘ)
to pretend to look happy / to force oneself to smile
one's mother's loving face
mien / complexion
HSK 7-9
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
face / prestige
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
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surname Yan
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color / face / countenance
two-character surname Wanyan
(ACG) art of making humorously exaggerated facial expressions (loanword from Japanese 顔芸 "kaogei")
to nourish one's skin / to maintain a youthful appearance
(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, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
to smile / to beam
to maintain a youthful appearance
(of complexion) to lose one's color; to blanch; to look wan
a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks
(I'll) teach you a lesson / put you in your place
face
shameless
to rejoice / smiling
Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as 顏回|颜回
smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure / all smiles / joy written across one's face
paint / dye / pigment
to blush with shame (literary)


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