color
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
でも今日は、ルーカスさんの顔色がよくありませんでした。
Demo kyou wa, Rūkasu-san no kaoiro ga yoku arimasen deshita.
Except today, Lucas wasn't looking too good.
本当にそうだね…それにこっちは色も濃いし。
Hontou ni sou da ne... soreni kocchi wa iro mo koi shi.
It really is... It's darker than the navy one too.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0