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.

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

色 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

• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	色
+4	艳SC (=豔 -> 豆)
+5	艴
+8	艵
+13	艶JP (=豔 -> 豆)
+18	艷GB TC (=豔 -> 豆)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/色

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. It is a second grade kanji.

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8272