颜

colour

This has the same sound as accomplished (彦, yan4) but is a rising tone instead of a falling tone. The person who clawed to the top of the slope has made a great accomplishment and is now looking down into the canYAN (yan4). When you see this successful climb colored onto a page in a magazine, you are looking UP at the other's accomplishment from the ground view at the bottom of the canyon (yan2). by gisjedi

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