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彩

彩

See also: 綵

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

彩 (radical 59 彡+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月木竹竹竹 (BDHHH), four-corner 22922, composition ⿰采彡)

  1. hue, colour
  2. variegated colours

References

  • KangXi: page 363, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9992
  • Dae Jaweon: page 682, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 855, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5F69

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 彩

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (采) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
采 *sʰɯːʔ
睬 *sʰɯːʔ
彩 *sʰɯːʔ
採 *sʰɯːʔ
綵 *sʰɯːʔ
寀 *sʰɯːʔ
菜 *sʰɯːs
埰 *sʰɯːs
棌 *sʰɯːs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 彩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉宰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰəiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰəjX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰᴀiX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cǎi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cǎi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshojX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.r̥ˤəʔ/
English colorful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 彩
Reading # 1/1
No. 1072
Phonetic
component		 采
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 采
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰɯːʔ/

Definitions

彩

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Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 彩 – see 綵.
(This character, 彩, is the simplified form of 綵.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

彩

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. coloring

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

彩 ‎(hiragana あや, romaji Aya)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

彩 • ‎(chae) (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune-Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

彩 (thái, rằn, thể, thải)

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