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COLORS IN
JAPANESE
English To Japanese Translation
On this page you can learn to say and write Japanese words for colors. The most common colors are shown. As with the English language, words for colors can be used as a NOUN or as an ADJECTIVE. In Japanese grammar to change most nouns to an adjectival noun you add 'iro' to end of the word.Examples:
I prefer yellow - I prefer ki.
Ki is the word for yellow in Japanese, and we used it as a noun in this instance so we just use the word 'ki'.
If we want to use it as an adjective.
I prefer the yellow flower - I prefer the kiiro flower.
Then we must add the 'iro' to the end of the ki to make it an adjectival noun.
For an adjective noun use/add the 'iro' on the end of your noun. If the noun already ends with ro, then we just need to add the 'i' to the 'ro'. If it ends with 'a', just add the 'i' to change it to a adjectival noun.
Not all nouns use 'iro' to change it to a 'adjective noun' but many do.
The translations include the word written with the 'iro' included; the adjectival noun; and is written in Kanji as such.
For the Kanji written translation; if a word cannot be written entirely in Kanji, then it is written with Kanji, and Hiragana/Katakana. This is how all Japanese words are written.
red in Japanese: aka i Written in Hiragana: あか い Written in Kanji: 赤 い
yellow in Japanese is: ki iro Written in Hiragana: きいろ Written in Kanji: 黄色
white in Japanese is: shiro i Written in Hiragana: しろ い
Written in Kanji: 白 い
green in Japanese is: midori iro Written in Hiragana: みどりいろ
Written in Kanji: 緑色
orange in Japanese is: orenji iro Written in Hiragana: オレンジいろ
Written in Kanji: オレンジ色
brown in Japanese is: cha iro Written in Hiragana: ちゃいろ
Written in Kanji: 茶色
gray in Japanese is: nezumi iro Written in Hiragana: ねずみ いろ
Written in Kanji: 灰色
black in Japanese is: kuro i Written in Hiragana: くろ い
Written in Kanji: 黒 い
In Japanese, the letter 'i', is usually pronounced as the letter 'e', and 'e', is pronounced as 'a'. Example, shiru(verb to know) is pronounced as sheru, and neko(cat), is pronounced as nako.
When letters are not available for a word in Hiragana, then they are usually written with Katakana letters.
Japanese has 46 letters and combination letters in each of its' alphabets - Hiragana, and Katakana; and the Kanji alphabet which contains about 50,000 ideographs, which express a complete thought, meaning, or idea. Modern day knowledge of Kanji and schooling requirements is about 2000 Kanji; although for everyday use the number is probably much less.
Each of the letters in hiragana and katakana are pronounced the same, mean the same; however, they are written differently.
Also, Katakana, has additional letters and combination letters
that Hiragana does not have.
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