EntryCommonJLPT N5WaniKani 5
  1. Noun

    colour; color; hue; tint; tinge; shade

    その色は彼女の髪の毛とよく合った。
    The color went beautifully with her hair.
  2. complexion; skin colour; skin color

  3. look (on one's face); expression

  4. appearance; air; feeling

  5. personality; character

  6. tone (of one's voice, etc.); tune; sound; ring

  7. love; lust; sensuality; love affair

    see 色仕掛け

  8. lover; paramour

  9. beauty; sexiness; physical appeal

  10. kind; type; variety

    also written 種

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

color

Kun
いろ
On
ショクシキ
Strokes
6
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
621 of 2500
Radical
color
WaniKani
Level 5

Built from

Used in names as

しかしこ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-2-4SKIP code
2n4.1The Kanji Dictionary
2771.7Four corner code
2556deroo
8272Unicode hex code
1-31-07JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3889Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4956New Nelson (John Haig)
2029New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2522Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1280Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1748Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1753Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1890Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
326A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
345Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
241Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30602Morohashi
145A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
204Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
204Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
94sakade
243Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
162henshall3
127Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
405crowley
316Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.20busy_people
1599Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1769Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
se4, shai3Pinyin reading
saegKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level