Questions tagged [colors]
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Can certain shades of the cyan/aqua color be considered a variation of the color mizuiro?
Can the color cyan (#00FFFF or 0, 255, 255 / google color picker) refer to the color mizuiro? Mizuiro in Japanese literally means "water-colored" so I wanted to know if mizuiro could refer ...
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Is the term "mizudori" a color?
Is the term "mizudori" used to describe the color of water (light blue) or is it simply referred to as "water bird" or "waterfowl"? I've been doing some research ...
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What is the meaning of やさしい色のソフトカラー
I recently bought some highlighters from Japan that are pastel in color and on the front it says 「やさしい色のソフトカラー」 and I'm a bit confused since 「やさしい色」and 「ソフトカラー」both, in my mind, mean "pastels&...
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What purpose does adding 色 to colors achieve?
Like the title says, I don't understand the purpose of adding 色 to color words. For example:
緑のドレスを着ている vs 緑色のドレスを着ている
赤い車を運転した vs 赤色の車を運転した vs 赤の車を運転した
I know both styles are common, but in what ...
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Linking two colours with te-form
So I read somewhere that you cannot describe an item with two colours using te-form.
eg そのシャツは赤くてしろいです. Just want to verify if it's true, and if so, how would you link them? Would using the noun form ...
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How to properly translate the last three colours of the rainbow in Japanese?
When I use Google Translate to translate from Russian to Japanese, I get the same Japanese word for two different colours of the rainbow.
💙 ➡️ голубой ➡️ 青い ➡️ blue
🔵 ➡️ синий ➡️ 青い ➡️ blue
These ...
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What is cyan color in Japanese?
What is the exact word for cyan color in Japanese language? Is it 青緑 / あおみどり?
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Clarification on colours and い [duplicate]
Is it red ?
あかですか？あかいですか？
It is red.
あかです。あかいです。
Which of each is correct or would both options be correct ?
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Does 色 (iro) have to be placed after colour kanji?
For example:
English: This juice is purple.
日本語 1: このジュースは紫です。
日本語 2: このジュースは紫色です。
Does the kanji 色 need to be palced after colours?
From what I understand, sometimes the kanji 色 is necessary. ...
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What is the difference between あお and あおい?
I know あおい means "blue (adj.)" and あお means "the color blue". What does "blue (adj.)" mean? Like "I am feeling blue?"
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I have just started with Japanese. I am on first column of Hiragana. I did ...
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What's does 白紙 (Hakushi) really stand for?
Some websites say it stands for Enlightenment, Paper White, but others say it means Weak Willed. I'm confused on which one is right?
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How to say something is [a colour] AND [another adjective] using て form 'and'?
Do all colours work as な adjectives or い adjectives when using て form 'and'? In a sentence such as "my phone is white and small", would it be 私のけいたいは白いで小さいです。OR ～けいたいはしろくて～?
Also, if the colour were ...
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Ink label kanji?
So I was looking at a modular kit that was made in Japan, and inside of the box were some ink labels (I think CMYK). Here is a picture:
I recognized three of the four kanji. The first being 墨 (black ...
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The colour of 青黄色い
I'm reading Kawabata's 「雪国」alongside Seidensticker's translation from 1956. A few pages in our narrator casts a glance at a sick man's hand and describes it as 男の青黄色い手. Now I'm wondering what colour ...
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Confirmation regarding Japanese colors i-adjective
I want to ask confirmation regarding Japanese colors. I understand that there are NOUN, and I-adj version of some colors.
Such as 赤＆赤い, 青＆青い, etc.
But this part below is something I cannot confirm. ...
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Why are the high-pitched voices of children 'yellow'?
I was reading a little book called 『ひらがな物語』 and came across this passage on page 119:
大臣といえば明治初期の文部大臣森有礼が
「めんどうだから、いっそのこと、小学校教育は英語にしようか」
と、おおまじめで、いい出したこともあった。もし森文部大臣の発言が通っておれば今頃、
パパ ママ ...
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Help with grammar number
I have trouble translating the next:
よしおさんの車は赤と白です。
What is the correct translation to the sentence?
Yoshio-san's car is red and white
Yoshio-san's cars are (one) red and (the other) white
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Is there a word that describes greenish-blue colours (of any shade)?
I'm looking for the most natural-sounding way to express the general concept of blue-green colours (such as cyan or teal) in Japanese. By "general concept", I mean all colours that are neither ...
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How do you read 麻色?
Don't know if it should be read as まいろ, まあいろ, あさいろ or in some other way. Couldn't find it in any dictionary.
Context:
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How did 真っ赤 came to mean "downright"? [duplicate]
We know that 真っ赤 means "deep red," but how did it come to mean 'downright', as in 真っ赤な嘘 (outright lie)?
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Why does きいろ mean yellow rather than green?
I know that most of "why" questions don't make much sense as far as linguistics are concerned but I'll ask anyway.
I know that き means a tree. いろ means color. It doesn't take a genius to guess that ...
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Why does 赤 have a negative connotation?
赤 is generally understood as meaning 'red' (which can explain combinations like 赤子 (red face of a crying baby)). However, I have seen some words with 赤 that have a negative meaning, 赤 possibly ...
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Why did オレンジ replace 橙【だいだい】?
This question about colours got me thinking:
Why, and how, did オレンジ come to replace 橙【だいだい】 to refer to the colour orange?
It seems weird to me that a word taken from a foreign language became ...
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How indistinguishable is blue from green really?
青 ao seems to be used very much interchangeably for both blue and green. Why is that so, and how does 緑 midori play into this?
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