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彩色

cǎi sè 3–4

color; multicolored

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
彩 · 色
Syllables
2
cǎi sè
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 7,894

Part of speech: b

Character by character

  • 彩cǎi11 strokesHSK 3hue, color; variegated colors
  • 色sè6 strokesHSK 2color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty; Kangxi radical 139

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 彩色. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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