五颜六色
Meaning
- multicolored
- every color under the sun
Example sentence
房子里放满了五颜六色的艺术品。
The house was full of colorful art objects.
Characters in 五颜六色
- 五 wǔ five
- 颜 yán face, countenance; colour
- 六 liù six
- 色 sè color
五 five 颜 colours 六 six 色 hues. Chinese builds many idioms on paired numbers — the point is variety, not the arithmetic.