Colors

[origamiboxers]

Basic Color Wheel:
Chairo : Brown
Aka : Red Ah-kah
Kin : Gold kee-n
Kiiro : Yellow keee--row (hold the 'ee' sound for a bit longer than normal because of the extra 'i')
Midori : Green Mee-doh-Ree
Ao : Blue Ah-oh
Murasaki : Purple moo-rah-sah-kee

Kuro : Black kuu-row
Gin : Silver Gee-n
Shiro : White shee-row

Adding an 'i' to the end of most colors turns it into an adjective. If it already ends with 'i' then you dont have to add an extra 'i'.

Example:
Ao > Aoi ah-oh-ee
Aka > Akai ah-kah-ee

Feel free to add to the list (as always).

Note, thanks to the below posters:

Murasaki and Midori need to have a "no" after them to become adjectives.  

[Super Mint-Chan]

"Iro" is the word itself for color.

"Anata no iro gasuki desu ka?"
What is your favorite color?

And so on. biggrin  

[origamiboxers]

Arigato! I completely forgot to mention that! sweatdrop  

[1koza]

MintAdnade

"Iro" is the word itself for color.

"Anata no iro gasuki desu ka?"
What is your favorite color?

And so on. biggrin

Hey Mint~ the phrase you posted comes out more like "Do you like your color?"

The more appropiate phrase is Sukina iro wa nan desuka Literally~ Favorite color, what is it? To put in our English format: What is your favorite color?

I had 500 kids ask me that very question over a two year period. It is burned into my brain 3nodding  

[Tenzin Chodron]

Out of all the colours, the only one that isn't an adjective is midori, which is a noun. This makes a difference when using it to describe the colour of an object: akai kasa (red umbrella), versus midori no kasa (green umbrealla). The particle "no" is used to give possession of the "kasa" to the "midori." Strange, isn't it?  

[Vincent Valentine-Jenova]

Rin Solaris

Out of all the colours, the only one that isn't an adjective is midori, which is a noun. This makes a difference when using it to describe the colour of an object: akai kasa (red umbrella), versus midori no kasa (green umbrealla). The particle "no" is used to give possession of the "kasa" to the "midori." Strange, isn't it?

that is because They never really had a word for green untill recently. Everything green was called blue. sweatdrop  

[chinotenshi]

Vincent Valentine-Jenova

Rin Solaris

Out of all the colours, the only one that isn't an adjective is midori, which is a noun. This makes a difference when using it to describe the colour of an object: akai kasa (red umbrella), versus midori no kasa (green umbrealla). The particle "no" is used to give possession of the "kasa" to the "midori." Strange, isn't it?

that is because They never really had a word for green untill recently. Everything green was called blue. sweatdrop

Well, the kanji for "blue" 青 means "green" in Chinese, so the Japanese used it for both "green" and "blue" for years.

Also, murasaki is also a noun, much like midori, and needs "no" as a connector. (murasaki no kutsushita = purple socks).  

[Miriam The Bat]

Is it true that adding -iro to the end of an object means (object)-colored?

In a fansub, i saw nijiro translated to rainbow-colored, and niji means rainbow. So could sakurairo mean cherry blossom colored? Or is nijiro a word itself?

I heard that in DBZ, the sky on the planet Namec (sp?) is colored green and the grass is blue because it's based on the images in a childs coloring book, where they get the colors green and blue confused.  

[chinotenshi]

Miriam The Bat

Is it true that adding -iro to the end of an object means (object)-colored?

In a fansub, i saw nijiro translated to rainbow-colored, and niji means rainbow. So could sakurairo mean cherry blossom colored? Or is nijiro a word itself?

I heard that in DBZ, the sky on the planet Namec (sp?) is colored green and the grass is blue because it's based on the images in a childs coloring book, where they get the colors green and blue confused.

There are a few things that they just don't have a color word for so they add "iro" to the end of words. Examples that I can think of are:
Nezumi-iro = gray (mouse color)
Cha-iro = brown (tea color)

As for the DBZ thing, no clue. I try to stay away from DBZ.  

[Steeple]

More on "midori", the kanji for midori means greenery, like plants and stuff. Thus, green. =D

Midori ga suki ^-^  

[LeTs.BoWliNg]

chinotenshi

Vincent Valentine-Jenova

Rin Solaris

Out of all the colours, the only one that isn't an adjective is midori, which is a noun. This makes a difference when using it to describe the colour of an object: akai kasa (red umbrella), versus midori no kasa (green umbrealla). The particle "no" is used to give possession of the "kasa" to the "midori." Strange, isn't it?

that is because They never really had a word for green untill recently. Everything green was called blue. sweatdrop

Well, the kanji for "blue" 青 means "green" in Chinese, so the Japanese used it for both "green" and "blue" for years.

Also, murasaki is also a noun, much like midori, and needs "no" as a connector. (murasaki no kutsushita = purple socks).

I noticed that pink wasn't mentioned. Pink and orange are just western words now, but the old word for pink was momo iro (peach color) I remember, because my grandma would say it instead of pinku. sweatdrop  

[LeTs.BoWliNg]

origamiboxers

Murasaki : Purple mo-ra-sa-key


Feel free to add to the list (as always).

wait. isn't it mu/moo-ra-sa-kee ?  

[chinotenshi]

LeTs.BoWliNg

origamiboxers

Murasaki : Purple mo-ra-sa-key


Feel free to add to the list (as always).

wait. isn't it mu/moo-ra-sa-kee ?

"moo-ra-sa-kee" is the pronounciation of "murasaki". The actual spelling is "murasaki" if you translate directly from the hiragana:

むらさき => mu ra sa ki

And as for "momoiro" for pink, it is still used for more of peachy-pink instead of full-out bright pink. The pink that Hello Kitty items come in is refered to as "pinku" while lighter shades of pink that have a hint of orange to them (i.e. look like a peach) are refered to as "momoiro".  

[LeTs.BoWliNg]

chinotenshi

LeTs.BoWliNg

origamiboxers

Murasaki : Purple mo-ra-sa-key


Feel free to add to the list (as always).

wait. isn't it mu/moo-ra-sa-kee ?

"moo-ra-sa-kee" is the pronounciation of "murasaki". The actual spelling is "murasaki" if you translate directly from the hiragana:

むらさき => mu ra sa ki

And as for "momoiro" for pink, it is still used for more of peachy-pink instead of full-out bright pink. The pink that Hello Kitty items come in is refered to as "pinku" while lighter shades of pink that have a hint of orange to them (i.e. look like a peach) are refered to as "momoiro".

on the purple thingie...on your post it says mo-ra-sa-key. that's what i was wondering about  

[origamiboxers]

who added pronounciations to my post? not very good ones either....

*edits it*