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色

いろ

color

Mnemonic

Nobody agrees what the two figures in this one are doing, so take the meaning and go. That jumper is a shade with no name and it has started a row: いろ.

Worth knowing

色々 いろいろ is various, colours upon colours. 色 also reads しょく in compounds.

Built from

colour
Two figures, one bent over the other, and nobody agrees why that came to mean colour. Take the meaning and leave the shape.

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