(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

adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display
jeering / booing / catcalls
Mark Six (Hong Kong lotto game)
disgraceful / dishonorable
vermilion / rhetorical language
a bright color / sparkle / shine / glitter

Sentences with 彩

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