(bright) color / variety / applause / applaud / lottery prize

= + : The King of Chu (c) is playing his fake Santa Clause beard (彡) by pulling the beard with one hand and plucking (采) the hairs using a plectrum (采) in the airplane (ai3). He is playing a variety (彩) of songs and the audience is applauding (彩) frantically.

彩 character breakdown

"bristle" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 59)

= 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a fake Santa Clause beard.

= 丿 : In front of the anthill Sherlock Holmes wants to eat a banana, but he can't because of his fake Santa Clause beard.
to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a plectrum.

= + : The King of Chu (c) decorated the airplane's (ai3) Christmas trees (木) with plectrums (采), now it's time to decorate himself. He selects parts of his beard to shave with an electric razor (爫), then goes on to select some of the leaves to pluck them out and put them in his partly shaved face.
color / complexion / looks / variant of 彩[cai3] / variant of 採|采[cai3]
allotment to a feudal noble

Characters with 彩 as component

彩 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 彩

bright and colorful / gorgeous
gorgeous / resplendent or rich color
to adorn / to festoon
warp brocade / woven fabric with single woof but colored warp
variant of 興高采烈|兴高采烈[xing4 gao1 cai3 lie4]
see 五彩繽紛|五彩缤纷[wu3 cai3 bin1 fen1]
to festoon / to decorate with a row of colored garlands
(bird species of China) white-browed tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae)
lottery run by China Welfare Lottery, a government agency that uses a portion of the money from ticket sales to fund welfare projects (abbr. for 福利彩票[fu2 li4 cai3 piao4])

Sentences with 彩

xi̅ng
xing
pu̅
chéng
yín
hé
 
 
cǎi
hóng
jià
zuò
fe̅i
qiáo