墨色

Chinese

		ink	color
simp. and trad. (墨色)		墨	色

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mòsè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶ sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mòsè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mòsè
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴-sê⁴
    • Yale: mwò-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mohseh
    • Palladius: мосэ (mosɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mak⁶ sik¹
    • Yale: mahk sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚² sɪk̚⁵/

Noun

墨色

1. the color of ink

   • 亦不著月日，惟墨色字體不一，知非一時所書。 [MSC, trad.]
     亦不著月日，惟墨色字体不一，知非一时所书。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1918, Lu Xun, A Madman's Diary, translated by Wikisource

     Yì bù zhù yuèrì, wéi mòsè zìtǐ bùyī, zhī fēi yīshí suǒ shū. [Pinyin]

     Furthermore, he did not include any dates. It was only by the differences in ink color and penmanship that one would know that it was not all written at the same time.

Adjective

墨色

1. inky; dark

   • 俄頃風定雲墨色，秋天漠漠向昏黑。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     俄顷风定云墨色，秋天漠漠向昏黑。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Du Fu (712–770), 《茅屋為秋風所破歌》, translated by Xu Yuanchong

     Éqǐng fēng dìng yún mòsè, qiūtiān mòmò xiàng hūnhēi. [Pinyin]

     Shortly the gale subsides and clouds turn dark as ink, the autumn skies are shrouded and in darkness sink.