Japanese Colors Vocabulary - Learn Japanese Colors Vocabulary

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Updated June 19, 2017

In Japanese, all colors are treated as nouns, unlike English (Colors are treated as adjectives or nouns in English). Please check out my article, "Japanese Conception of Red".

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iro　色 --- colors
ao　青 --- blue
aka　赤 --- red
chairo　茶色 --- brown
daidaiiro　橙色 --- orange
haiiro　灰色 --- grey
kiiro　黄色 --- yellow
kimidori　黄緑 --- light green
kuro　黒 --- black
midori　緑 --- green
mizuiro　水色 --- light blue
momoiro　桃色 --- pink
murasaki　紫 --- purple
shiro　白 --- white
Sukina iro wa nan desu ka.

　好きな色は何ですか。 --- What is your favorite color?

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