特色

Chinese

		special; unusual; extraordinary special; unusual; extraordinary; male animal	colour; dice; look colour; dice; look; appearance
trad. (特色)		特	色
simp. #(特色)		特	色

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tèsè

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄜˋ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dak⁶ sik¹

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thi̍t-set
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): te̍k-sek / tia̍k-siak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dêg⁸ sêg⁴

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁸deq-seq₇

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tèsè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tèsè
    • Wade–Giles: tʻê⁴-sê⁴
    • Yale: tè-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tehseh
    • Palladius: тэсэ (tɛsɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dak⁶ sik¹
    • Yale: dahk sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dak⁹ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: deg⁶ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐk̚² sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi̍t-set
    • Hakka Romanization System: tid sed^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tid⁶ sed⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰit̚⁵ set̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k-sek
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: degseg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚⁴⁻³² siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kinmen): /tiɪk̚⁵⁴⁻³² siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k-siak
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k-siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diagsiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴⁻² siak̚⁵/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dêg⁸ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: te̍k sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tek̚⁴⁻² sek̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁸deq-seq₇
    • MiniDict: deh^入 seh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵deq-seq₄
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /dəʔ¹¹ səʔ²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /dəʔ³³ səʔ⁴⁴/

Noun

特色

1. something special; characteristic; distinguishing quality; feature; specialty; trait

   特色咖啡  ―  tèsè kāfēi  ―  specialty coffee

Synonyms

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• 性子 (xìngzi) (of alcohol, drugs, etc.)
• 情調 / 情调 (qíngdiào)
• 格 (literary, or in compounds)
• 特徵 / 特征 (tèzhēng)
• 特性 (tèxìng)
• 特點 / 特点 (tèdiǎn)
• 色彩 (sècǎi) (figurative)

 

Derived terms

• 中國特色 / 中国特色 (Zhōngguó tèsè)

 

See also

• 風格／风格 (fēnggé)

References

• “Entry #6273”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
特	色
とく Grade: 4	しょく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とくしょく [tòkúshókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [to̞kɯ̟̊ɕo̞kɯ̟]

Noun

特(とく)色(しょく) • (tokushoku) 

1. special characteristic, distinguishing feature
2. (printing) non-CMYK color, which must be created using a mixture of colors

   特色(とくしょく)の赤色(あかいろ)

   tokushoku no akairo

   the non-CMYK color of red

Synonyms

• 特徴(とくちょう) (tokuchō)

Korean

Hanja in this term
特	色

Noun

特色 • (teuksaek) (hangeul 특색)

1. hanja form^? of 특색 (“This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
特	色

Adjective

特色

1. chữ Hán form of đặc sắc (“distinctive, outstanding, characteristic”).