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Kanji for Color
The kanji for “color” is 彩, read sai and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
color
Color and decoration; making the world colorful.
11 strokes On reading サイ (sai) Kun reading いろどる (irodoru) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: coloring, paint, makeup
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aya, sa, sai
In Japan it appears in about 1,397 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 彩: Isaiah 藍彩明 · Desiree 知彩理
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