And the English loan word is often used for things like White Day, the holiday most like our Valentine’s Day where men treat women. But it does have its own native Japanese word: 橙色 ( daidaiiro).Īnd this one you may have heard before: ホワイト ( howaito). The color orange in Japanese is most often said オレンジ, the English loan word. But there are some alternate ways to say them.įor example, purple in Japanese is 紫 ( murasaki), but sometimes you’ll hear the English loan word パープル ( pa-puru) written in Katakana.
These are the most common ways to hear and use the colors.
Let’s jump right in with our main, basic colors. A Kaleidoscope of Colors in Japanese The Colors in Japanese: Primary Colors.Japanese Color Names as Nouns and Adjectives: Grammar Usage.Shades of Black, White, Grey, and Browns.
