色
·shǎi
color; CL:種|种[zhong3]; look; appearance; sex
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #111 U+8272
How 色 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
What a person ⺈ desires 巴
How to remember it
color · Heisig RSH #1330
bound up + mosaic
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 色 as their sound component
These characters all use 色 (sè) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 色 sound component | sè | color, tint, hue, shade; beauty, form; sex |
| 绝 | jué | to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate |
| 铯 | sè | cesium |
Words containing 色
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水天一色 | shuǐ tiān yī sè | water and sky merge in one color (idiom) |
| 面无人色 | miàn wú rén sè | ashen-faced |
| 白色家电 | bái sè jiā diàn | white goods (such as refrigerators and washing machines) |
| 色子 | shǎi zi | dice (used in gambling) |
| 白色体 | bái sè tǐ | leucoplast |
| 无色 | wú sè | colorless |
| 天色 | tiān sè | color of the sky; time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky; weather |
| 量子色动力学 | liàng zǐ sè dòng lì xué | quantum chromodynamics (particle physics) |
| 色拉 | sè lā | (loanword) salad |
| 白色 | bái sè | white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist |
| 有色 | yǒu sè | colored; non-white; non-ferrous (metals) |
| 金色 | jīn sè | golden; gold (color) |
| 花色 | huā sè | variety; design and color; suit (cards) |
| 上色 | shàng sè | top-quality; top-grade |
| 上色 | shàng shǎi | to color (a picture etc); to dye (fabric etc); to stain (furniture etc) |
| 气色 | qì sè | complexion |
| 分色 | fēn sè | color separation |
| 面色 | miàn sè | complexion |
| 色长 | sè zhǎng | head of a division of the music academy of the imperial court |
| 化学比色法 | huà xué bǐ sè fǎ | chemical colorimetry |