色 sè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 色 — color, tint, hue, shade
- Made of
- ⺈ knife 巴 to cling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
色彩
sècǎi
colors
Characters in this word
彩 cǎi
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彡 — hair
- Made of
- 采 to collect, to gather 彡 hair
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 色彩很美。 Sècǎi hěn měi. The colors are beautiful.
- 这画色彩多。 Zhè huà sècǎi duō. This painting has many colors.
- 我喜欢色彩。 Wǒ xǐhuan sècǎi. I like colors.