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彩

See also: 綵
彩 U+5F69, 彩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F69
← 彨
[U+5F68] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彪 →
[U+5F6A]
彩 U+FA84, 彩
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA84
← 廙
[U+FA83] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 徭 →
[U+FA85]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

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

References edit

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

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰɯːʔ) : phonetic 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ) + semantic 彡.

Etymology 1 edit

simp. and trad.
 彩
2nd round simp. 采
alternative forms 采
綵

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tsəw-s/t (“colour; dye”); compare Tibetan ཚོས (tshos, “dye”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, 色 (OC *s.rək, “colour”) may be a dialectal variant (Baxter, 1992; Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • chhói/coi3 - “luck; fortune”.
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
Baxter tshojX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		coi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cǎi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshojX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.r̥ˁəʔ/
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 edit

彩

  1. variegated colors; rich and bright colors
  2. literary or artistic grace or talent; variety; gracefulness; brilliance
  3. applause; cheer
  4. blood from a wound
  5. lottery prize; winnings
  6. wager; stake; bet
  7. luck; fortune
    好彩 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  hó-chhói [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  good luck
  8. to be lucky (in gambling)
  9. a surname
Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 彩 – see 綵 (“varicolored silk”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 綵).
Notes:

Japanese edit

Shinjitai 彩
Kyūjitai
[1]
彩󠄁
彩+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
彩󠄃
彩+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji edit

彩

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. coloring

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Proper noun edit

彩(あや) • (Aya) 

  1. a female given name

References edit

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 819 (paper), page 459 (digital)

Korean edit

Hanja edit

彩 (eum 채 (chae))

  1. Colorful

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

彩: Hán Nôm readings: Thái

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