This document provides a list of Japanese colors in kanji with their English translations. It introduces basic Japanese color vocabulary and includes links to learn more about writing colors in kanji and an article about the Japanese conception of red. The document ends by asking the question "What is your favorite color?" in Japanese.

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In Japanese, all colors are treated as nouns, unlike English (Colors are treated as adjectives or nouns in English). Click here to see how to write
the colors of the rainbow in kanji. Please check out m 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 gre
kiiro 黄色 ellow
kimidori 黄緑 light green
kuro black
midori 緑 green
mi uiro 水色 light blue
momoiro 桃色 pink
murasaki 紫 purple
shiro 白 white
Sukina iro wa nan desu ka. 好きな色 何ですか。 What is our favorite color?
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