彩
彩 — chae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 채색 채
- Romanization
- chae
- English
- hue, color; variegated colors
- Mandarin
- cǎi
- Japanese on'yomi
- サイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いろど.る
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,251 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彡 (59, 8 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 采(채)
- Unicode
- U+5F69
Parts that make up 彩
- 采 풍채 채sound 나무에서 열매를 따는 손가려 뽑는 일. ‘채’ 계열의 소리
- 彡 나부끼는 터럭 셋무늬와 빛깔, 결
How 彩 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 彩 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 采, 彡.
Korean example words with 彩
- 문채文彩 Korean gloss: 문장의 멋
- 이채異彩 Korean gloss: 색다른 빛
- 기채奇彩 Korean gloss: 기이한 채색
- 채선彩扇 Korean gloss: 채색한 부채
- 필채筆彩 Korean gloss: 훌륭한 글씨
- 윤채潤彩 Korean gloss: 윤이 나는 빛깔
- 채복彩服 Korean gloss: 색깔이 고운 옷
- 광채光彩 Korean gloss: 정기 있는 밝은 빛
- 생채生彩 Korean gloss: 생생한 빛이나 기운
- 채하彩霞 Korean gloss: 빛이 아름다운 노을
- 채각彩閣 Korean gloss: 아름답게 단청한 누각
- 채문彩紋 Korean gloss: 아름답게 채색한 무늬
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 彩
- 色彩しきさい colour; color; hue
- 多彩たさい colourful; colorful; multicoloured
- 油彩ゆさい oil painting
- 精彩せいさい brilliance; luster; lustre
- 彩るいろどる to colour; to color; to paint
- 彩りいろどり coloring; colouring; coloration
- 彩色さいしき colouring; coloring; colouration
- 水彩画すいさいが watercolor painting; watercolour painting
- 迷彩めいさい camouflage; disguise
- 異彩いさい conspicuousness (usu. color); prominence; distinctiveness
- 極彩色ごくさいしき richly colored; richly coloured
- 光彩こうさい brilliance; splendour; splendor
Characters sharing the phonetic 采
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “채” in Korean.
Other hanja read “채”
Other hanja with radical 彡
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences