唐紅
Japanese
FWOTD – 13 May 2020
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term | |
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唐 | 紅 |
から Grade: S |
くれない Grade: 6 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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韓紅 |
From 唐 (Kara, “(Tang dynasty) China”) + 紅 (kurenai, “crimson”); contrasted with the alternative spelling 韓紅 (literally “Korean crimson”).
Pronunciation
Noun
唐紅 • (Kara-kurenai) ←からくれなゐ (karakurenawi)?
- Chinese red; deep crimson
- 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 5, poem 294; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 17)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.
- a Kara-kurenai-colored thread or cloth
- Synonym of 寒紅梅 (kankōbai): an ume cultivar, Prunus mume var. mume f. alphandii
- a 伽羅 (kyara)-class of incense
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.
Idioms
- 唐紅の涙 (Kara-kurenai no namida)
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term | |
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唐 | 紅 |
とう Grade: S |
べに Grade: 6 |
jūbakoyomi |
From 唐 (Tō, “(Tang dynasty) China → foreign”) + 紅 (beni, “crimson”).
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- Joseph Henry Longford (1919) Japan of the Japanese, C. Scribner's sons, original from the University of Michigan, page 160
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