字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · Spring and AutumnSpring and Autumn · 770–476 BCE𪒠鐘 (late Spring and Autumn)
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in States & Attributes
色
色 color, sensuality
いろ iro
6 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 2
Your ink in 色0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
It depicts a hand pressing down on a kneeling person. 色 was an ancient form of 印; they both originally meant "to press down", meaning now written with 抑.
Built from 爪 “claw; hand” + 卩 “kneeling person”
Source: Wiktionary, 色 (rev. 93477218), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The world is full of vibrant hues! This radical captures the colors of our environment and the deep emotions that flush our skin with passion, embarrassment, or joy. When you see it, think of visual beauty, variety, and the wonderful "bloom" of life. It brings the richness of the artist's palette and the intensity of human feeling to its characters.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates colors, physical appearance, attractiveness, lust or sensuality, or the "hue" and emotion of a particular situation.
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Every kanji with 色 as its radical
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