Radical 139
Chinese character radical
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Radical 139 or radical colour (色部) meaning "colour" or "form" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 色 | |
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Radical 139 (U+2F8A)
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| 色 (U+8272) "colour, form" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | sè |
| Bopomofo: | ㄙㄜˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | se4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | sik1 |
| Jyutping: | sik1 |
| Japanese Kana: | 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 | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
色 is also the 140th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
References
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
