| Kanji | 色 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | ショク、シキ |
| Kunyomi | いろ |
| Nanori | しか, しこ |
| English | color |
| Examples | 色(いろ): (1) colour; color (2) complexion (3) appearance; look (4) love; lust; sensuality; love affair; lover (5) kind; type; variety 色彩(しきさい): colour; color; hue; tints 特色(とくしょく): (1) characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; personal colour (2) spot color (in printing) 黄色(きいろ): yellow; amber 灰色(はいいろ): grey; gray; ashen 景色(けしき): scenery; scene; landscape 茶色(ちゃいろ): light brown; tawny 音色(ねいろ): (1) tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre (2) synthesizer patch; synthesiser patch 脚色(きゃくしょく): dramatization (e.g. film); dramatisation 着色(ちゃくしょく): colouring; coloring; colorant 黄色い(きいろい): (1) yellow (2) high-pitched (voice); shrill 色々(いろいろ): (1) various (2) various colors (colours) 茶色い(ちゃいろい): light brown; tawny 色(しょく): counter for colours |
| JLPT Level | 4 |
| Jouyou Grade | 2 |
| Frequency | 621 |
| Components | 勹: wrapping enclosure; wrapping radical (no. 20) 巴: comma-design |
| Number of Strokes | 6 |
| Kanji Radical | 色 |
| Radical Number | 139 |
| Radical Strokes | 6 |
| Radical Reading | いろ |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 会意 Compound Ideographic |
| Keyword | color |
| Koohii Story 1 | Ever look closely at mosaics? They contain a bunch of images bound up into a larger one. It seems amazing until you realize that the only quality of the smaller images that really matters is their colour. |
| Koohii Story 2 | Bound up in the Rubik´s cube are the 6 different colours. |
Tags: jlpt.n4, grade2, kanjifreq501-750, kanji_physical.properties_color
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