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Mythic Mandarin

色 (sè): meaning and stroke order

色 (sè) means color, 种, look, appearance, sex, (coll.) color, used in 色子.

色

Simplified
色
Traditional
色 (same form)
Pinyin
sè · shǎi

Stroke order of 色

色

  • sè color; CL:種|种[zhong3]
  • shǎi (coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 色

  1. sè
    • color
    • CL:種|种[zhong3]
    • look
    • appearance
    • sex
  2. shǎi
    • (coll.) color
    • used in 色子[shai3 zi5]

Radical and structure

色
Radical 色 (Kangxi radical 139) · 6 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 色

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).