Radical 139

色
Radical 139 (U+2F8A)
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

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.

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

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 色
+4 艳SC (=豔 -> 豆)
+5 艴
+8 艵
+13 艶JP (=豔 -> 豆)
+18 艷GB TC (=豔 -> 豆)

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

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature