cǎi
hue, color
Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 采 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.r̥ˤəʔ | tshojX | cǎi | colorful |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 35.1754% of movies
949th most common character in movies
1177th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5F69 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“彩，文章也。从彡，采聲。” |
Sources
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