色 — color, colour, sensuality

いろ色 color

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes color

U+8272 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #621 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1753 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #139

Meanings

color
colour
sensuality
appearance

word

いろ iro Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

色(いろ) iro color 色(いろ) 々 iroiro various 黄(き) 色(いろ) kiiro yellow 色(いろ) んな ironna various 黄(き) 色(いろ) い kiiroi yellow 音(ね) 色(いろ) neiro tone color 茶(ちゃ) 色(いろ) chairo brown 青(あお) 色(いろ) aoiro blue color

しょく shoku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

一(いっ) 色(しょく) isshoku one color 赤(せき) 色(しょく) sekishoku red color 物(ぶっ) 色(しょく) busshoku looking for 特(とく) 色(しょく) tokushoku characteristic 染(せん) 色(しょく) senshoku dyeing 褐(かっ) 色(しょく) kasshoku brown

しき shiki On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

景(け) 色(しき) keshiki scenery 色(しき) 彩(さい) shikisai color

Appears in idioms

十人十色四字熟語

ten, person, ten, color

空即是色四字熟語

sky, instant, just so, color

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠂊 sloping stroke

巴 coiled snake

Used as component in (2)

たつ絶 discontinue つや艶 glossy

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#139 色 color