Radical 139 Explained

Uni:8272
Meaning:colour, form
Pny:
Bopo:ㄙㄜˋ
Wade:se4
Jyutping:sik1
Yale:sik1
Onyomi:ショク shoku / シキ shiki
Kunyomi:いろ iro
Jp:色/いろ iro
Hang:빛 bit
Hanja:색 saek

Radical 139 or radical colour meaning "colour" or "form" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

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.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+4 SC (= -> )
+5
+8
+13 JP (= -> )
+18 GB 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.