Radical 139

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.

Radical 139 (U+2F8A)
(U+8272) "colour, form"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
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

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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

StrokesCharacters
+0
+4SC (= -> )
+5
+8
+13JP (= -> )
+18GB TC (= -> )

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

Literature

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