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しょく
Meanings
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1. counter for colours
There are only twelve colors!
2. color; colour; colouring
It was a dress with white as its base color.
3. (outward) appearance; look; air; manner
4. (facial) expression; face; looks; countenance
5. tendency; inclination
Events these days are far too commercial.
6. lust; (sexual) desire
Alt. forms
色しょく
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Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (126 in total)
lasciviousness; lechery; salaciousness; lust; sensuality; lewdness
colour of water (esp. in rivers, lakes, sea); scenery of rivers, lakes, etc.; light blue; pale blue
scenery; scene; landscape
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Examples (9 in total)
The rainbow has seven colors.
There are only twelve colors!
And there are only six colors, too.
It was a dress with white as its base color.
You can set the text and background colors.
Traffic lights have three colours: red, amber and green.
Events these days are far too commercial.
This set of colored pencils comes in twenty-four colors.
The colors and patterns of the clothes vary, but they seem to have a strong ethnic character.