| 色 | ||||
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| 色 (U+8272) "colour, form" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | sè | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄙㄜˋ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | se4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | sik1 | |||
| Jyutping: | sik1 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | ショク shoku / シキ shiki (on'yomi) いろ iro (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 색 saek | |||
| Names | ||||
| Japanese name(s): | 色/いろ iro | |||
| Hangul: | 빛 bit | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||
Radical 139 orradical colour (色部) meaning"colour" or"form" is one of the 29Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
色 is also the 140th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 色 |
| +4 | 艳SC (=豔->豆) |
| +5 | 艴 |
| +8 | 艵 |
| +13 | 艶JP (=豔->豆) |
| +18 | 艷GB TC (=豔->豆) |
The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]