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Japanese Vocabulary Color & Taste Adjectives

  ADJECTIVES - TASTE, COLOR (taste, color)
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  Japanese English
1. amai sweet
2. shoppai salty
3. suppai sour
4. nigai bitter
5. oishii delicious
6. mazui tasteless
7. karai hot
8. shiroi white
9. kuroi black
10. akai red
11. kiiroi yellow
12. aoi blue
13. tyairoi brown
14. midori green
15. murasaki purple
16. haiiro gray
17. momoiro pink
18. daidai orange
19. mizuiro light blue
20. sakurairo pale pink
21. akaneiro crimson
22, syuiro vermilion
23. yamabukiiro orange yellow
24. uguisuiro olive green
25. kimidori yellow green
26. hukamidori deep green
27. aiiro dark blue
28. kon-iro dark purlish blue
29. huziiro lavender
30. oodoiro yellow orchre
31. kogetya dark brown


  • Rose - July 30, 2008, 11:42 am
    Some of the romaji was incorrect, like there is no "hu", "zi" or "tya" (because they are pronounced slightly differently). BUT thank you for giving a list of these.
  • Circe - October 5, 2008, 11:56 am
    Very nice, but it would be nice it this list also including the kanji.
  • joyce - November 4, 2008, 1:20 am
    my teacher says that yellow should be 黄色 (kiiro) and brown should be 茶色 (chairo) because they are nouns.
  • Anon. - May 15, 2009, 5:59 pm
    Rose: There is different ways of latinizing japanese.
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