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As you discovered 青 is another word for green, they do not actually think that grass is blue. > Japanese has a fairly large number of loan words for colors ind
by rangibaby 8y ago
As you discovered 青 is another word for green, they do not actually think that grass is blue.
> Japanese has a fairly large number of loan words for colors indicating some colors were introduced to their lexicon through contact with foreigners.
Orange (橙色） is named after the fruit like in most languages (including English!)
Shades of pink are all named after different flowers, just like the English word. 牡丹色 is pretty close to "hot pink" (although the Japanese word is ショッキングピンク, shocking pink).