Japanese Colours

Re: Colors in Japanese: "Blue" and "Green" share the same word?
From: rdv@alumni.caltech.edu (Rodney D. Van Meter)
Date: 1996/01/05

newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,soc.culture.japan

Charles Eicher <ceicher@inav.net> wrote:
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It's certainly true that at first glance Japanese seems to be shorter on descriptive color names than English. It seems you can make color names as in English, though, in that gray is "ha-iro", or "ash-color".

Lots of colors (notably "pinku") seem to be swiped from English; surely there _used_ be a name for this? sakura-iro, perhaps?

The one I want to know, and in three years of asking, I've never gotten an acceptable answer: fuchsia.

Please email if you know, I don't read this newsgroup often.

--Rod

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