Comments by "alukuhito" (@alukuhito) on "COLOUR WORDS: The astounding origins of "blue", "black", "orange", "red" u0026 other colors" video.

Some traditional Japanese colour names (not often used now): 鴇色 (tokiro) - pink - literally, Japanese crested ibis colour 海老茶 (ebicha) - dark red - literally, shrimp/prawn colour 狐色 (kitsuneiro) - goldish - fox colour 山吹色 (yamabukiiro) - yellow - Japanese globeflower colour 鶯色 (uguisuiro) - olive green - nightingale colour 浅葱色 (asagiiro) - torquoise - chive colour 常盤緑 (tokiwamidori) - dark green - connarite green 茄子紺 (nasukon) - deep purple - eggplant dark blue 藤色 (fujiiro) - light purple - wisteria colour
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@jodypalm303 Good luck with the Japanese, but just a warning that these colour names are not helpful because most Japanese don't even know them. These are traditional names, rarely used today.
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@thekingsdaughter4233 Yes, evolved/devolved into less poetic names. Here are the basic colours: red - aka - 赤 orange - orenji - オレンジ yellow - kiiro - 黄色 green - midori - 緑 blue - ao/buluu - 青・ブルー dark blue - kon - 紺 purple - paapuru - パープル black - kuro - 黒 white - shiro - 白 grey - guree - グレー brown - chairo - 茶色 Sometimes you can be more specific with your colours, but these are the basics. The ones I listed before are rarely used and sometimes unknown, especially to younger people in Japan.
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Japanese doesn't distinguish green and blue so much. There is the word "ao", which could be either, although now people say "buluu" for blue, and "midori" or "guriin" for green to be more specific. Other interesting colour names in Japanese: momoiro (pink) = peach colour, chairo (brown) = tea colour, nezumiiro (grey) = mouse colour. Also, Japanese kids tend to colour the Sun red and the Moon yellow. People refer to orange cats as brown cats.
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@lesleystuart1813 Where are those languages spoken?
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@lesleystuart1813 Oh, OK. Thanks.
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@keithle_ Yes, normally. I was giving exceptions to the norm.
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