彩 – coloring, paint, makeup

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The kanji 彩 means coloring, paint, makeup. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is サイ (sai); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is いろど.る (irodoru). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 彡 (no. 59).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	サイ	sai
Kun’yomi	いろど.る	irodoru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 彡 (Kangxi radical 59). Components: 爪・木・彡.

Words using 彩

色彩しきさいcolour

Example sentences

雄のくじゃくは尾の羽毛が色彩豊かである。

The male peacock has colorful tail feathers.

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Kanji with the same radical

形影彫

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