字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲870 (商)
Oracle bone and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
彡
彡 hair-style, light rays
さんづくり sanzukuri
3 strokesRadical of 8 kanjiPart of 14
Your ink in 彡0% painted · 0 of 8 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Three strands of hair.
Source: Wiktionary, 彡 (rev. 87578100), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A touch of elegance! Imagine three fine strokes of a brush adding the final detail to a painting. This radical represents the "look" of a thing—its texture, its shadow, or the way it reflects light. When you see it on the right side, think of a decorative pattern, a beautiful hairstyle, or the subtle rays of a setting sun.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates physical appearance, texture (hair, grain), decorative patterns, light rays, or the concept of an image/shadow.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 彡, with sourced origins
- 影shadowエイ · かげ
景sound + 彡
The original meaning is "shadow". The phonetic component also indicates the concept of image.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 形shapeケイ · かた
井sound + 彡
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 彩coloringサイ · いろどる
采sound + 彡
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 彡 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 8 kanji