Colorful

January 27, 2011

“Colorful” in kanji. Japanese calligraphy art by Nao.

Colorful

irodo-ru, irodori, sai

Imagine a monochrome scene, a monochrome dish etc. Adding even the slightest color to them, you can make them colorful. This is so-called adding irodori. Irodori often means added colors. It sounds more aesthetic than iro (color). The verb irodoru means that by adding colors or other characteristics, you make something look more attractive or interesting.

Shikisai means colors or tendencies. Having the same characters, saishoku means almost the same as irodori. With saishoku, you can mean “adding or putting colors.”


The kanji for “Colorful” with the stroke order and arrows showing directions.

  1. Begin to draw the left-hand side of the character. Draw the sweeping stroke on the top.
  2. Draw the dot to the left.
  3. Draw the dot in the middle.
  4. Draw the sweeping dot from the upper right.
  5. Draw the horizontal stroke under dots.
  6. Draw the vertical stroke.
  7. Draw the sweeping stroke from the previous strokes intersect.
  8. Draw the small dot like a hanging branch of the vertical stroke.
  9. Begin to draw the right-hand side of the character. Draw the sweeping stroke from the top.
  10. Draw the sweeping stroke in the middle.
  11. Draw the sweeping stroke at the bottom.
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