血红色

血紅色

xuèhóngsè

noun

Meanings

1 blood-red
2 crimson

Characters

Examples

夕阳把天空染成了血红色。

Xīyáng bǎ tiānkōng rǎn chéng le xuèhóngsè.

The sunset dyed the sky blood-red.

她涂了一支血红色的口红。

Tā tú le yì zhī xuèhóngsè de kǒuhóng.

She put on a blood-red lipstick.

墙上出现了一滩血红色的污渍。

Qiáng shàng chūxiàn le yì tān xuèhóngsè de wūzì.

A blood-red stain appeared on the wall.

Tips

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Stronger and more dramatic than plain 红色. Used in literary descriptions (sunsets, emergency signals, horror imagery) and fashion. The colloquial variant 血红 without 色 works the same way: 血红的眼睛 bloodshot eyes.

Stroke Order

血 xuè

红 hóng

色 sè