Sunday, June 3, 2012

Basic Colour List

いAdj
  1. White - 白い(しろい) shiroi

  2. Black - 黒い(くろい) kuroi

  3. Red - 赤い(あかい)akai

  4. Blue/Green* - 青い(あおい) aoi 

  5. Brown - 茶色い(ちゃいろい)

  6. Yellow - 黄色い(きいろい)

のAdj・Noun
  1. Green - 緑(みどり) 

  2. Pink - ピンク(ぴんく)

  3. Pink - 桃色(ももいろ)

  4. Purple - 紫(むらさき)

  5. Crismon Red - 紅(くれない・べに・こう)

  6. Orange - 橙色(だいだいいろ)

  7. Sliver - 銀色(ぎんいろ)

  8. Gold - 金色(きんいろ)

  9. Grey - 灰色・グレー(はいいろ・ぐれー)
*For Blue or Green colour, we usually use 青い(あおい). However, there are times where green is 緑(みどり) instead.

Do you know that you can make your color into light colour by adding a prefix?
Prefixed : Light+Colour
Light - 薄 (うす)
Example: 薄紅 (うすくれない) means light red colour


What about dull/dark colour?
There's an adjective as well for dull colour - 暗い(くらい).
If you want dull red colour, all you do is
暗い(くらい) + 赤い(あかい) = 暗い赤い(くらいあかい)

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