How to say colors in Japanese??

Hi guys, I got request from one follower of twitter .
so, today's theme is How to say colors in Japanese??
I teach you basic color's name in Japanese.

black :黒(kuro)
red:赤(aka)
yellow:黄(ki)
green:緑(midori)
white:白(shiro)
brown:茶(cha)
blue:青(ao)
gray:灰(hai)
purple:紫(murasaki)

these are color's name as noun .

When you want to use as a adjective, please add the character"い(i)"

like ,

黒い(kuroi),赤い(akai),

but when you want use　黄(ki):yellow as a adjective, you need to add "色い(iroi)"

like this ,

黄色い(kiiroi)

茶(cha) has same rule.


And ,

gray:灰(hai)
purple:紫(murasaki)

green:緑(midori)

in these word in Japanese , there are no fixed adjective expression.

so, if you wanna use as adjective by force, I recommend you to say

○○色っぽい(～ppoi)

for example ,

灰色っぽい(haiiroppoi)

紫色っぽい(murasakiiroppoi)

緑色っぽい(midoriiroppoi)

っぽい(～ppoi)means "just like ~"

you can apply other way too.

eg:You are like a dog.lol

きみはイヌっぽいね。

(kimi wa inu ppoi ne)

but remember , don't use just "色っぽい(iroppoi)"........it means sexy in Japanese.

Kamonogashi