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I saw both used for brown but looking at Google Translate it doesn't help me to understand what the difference is between the two. Can someone help me.

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  • ちゃいろい has an extra 「い」 on the end.
    – istrasci
    Sep 14, 2016 at 19:14

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　 茶色 　　/ 茶色い, 茶色の

ちゃいろ　/　 ちゃいろい

Noun　　 / 　　Adj.

https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/380841

　　「赤い(red)」　　　「青い(blue)」　　　「白い(white)」　　　「黒い(black)」　

　　「黄色い(yellow)」　　　「茶色い(blown)」　　　-- adjectives.

The tricky part is ...

Sometimes, you can't add　　 い 　　 at the end.

noun:　　　noun+の　　 ("no" adjective)

みどり：　　 みどりの 　　 green

むらさき：　　 むらさきの　　 purple

ピンク：　　 ピンクの 　　 pink

Anything else that 's tricky or interesting ?

　　　　　　　Brownish　 　　茶色っぽい

There's an elaborate 5- year old page here: Historical differences between colors that are i-adjectives and those that are simply nouns

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    The formatting in your answers is very hard to read. Maybe you could avoid putting strange spacing into your comments and answers?
    – user1478
    Sep 14, 2016 at 22:58
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    @Mark そういう問題ではないと思いますが・・・
    – user1478
    Sep 15, 2016 at 0:28
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    @Mark No, we would say 全角スペース.
    – broccoli forest
    Sep 15, 2016 at 4:52
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    I have to admit that I also never have read an answer of yours because of difficult-to-read formatting. Using 全角スペース as a hack for alignment tabs etc. might work if we had a font where the full-width space is displayed as such across all devices and browsers. Unfortunately such a font doesn't exist.
    – Earthliŋ ♦
    Sep 15, 2016 at 6:13
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    i.stack.imgur.com/EhE1j.png
    – Earthliŋ ♦
    Sep 15, 2016 at 6:22

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