# 色 — Color

Frequency rank 248 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 果 (Fruit), less common than 落 (Fall).

- On’yomi: しょく、しき
- Kun’yomi: いろ
- Radical: 色 Colour (Kangxi 139)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

Mid-thrust the kneeling woman reaches back and rakes her nails down his ribs, and he turns from scarlet to bruised green while she licks the color off her fingers.

In words:

- 色 いろ — colour
- 色々 いろいろ — various
- 茶色 ちゃいろ — brown

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