字Study Chinese Characters
彡

shān three slanting strokes (bristles, hair, light or pattern)

Component (a building block) — not the same thing as a radical or a sound component. · 3strokes

Characters that use it as a component

形彤杉修参彩彪彬

Characters filed under it as a radical

Kangxi radical no.59 · 3strokes — The 214 Kangxi radicals

Filed under it in a dictionary. That is a lookup convention — it does not mean it is the only part the character is built from.

形彤彩彬彭彪