Illustration: At a kitchen table, a child has painted a broad purple patch on a sheet and holds up a paint-covered fingertip beside a bunch of purple grapes. A glossy purple eggplant lies next to the grapes, offering another everyday object with the same recognizable hue.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

紫むらさき

murasaki

purple

Example sentences

  1. その色いろはピンクというより紫むらさきだ。

    The color is purple rather than pink.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 赤あかと青あおを混まぜると紫むらさきになる。

    Red and blue paint mixed together give us purple.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 紫むらさきのじゅうたんはこの赤あかいカーテンと調和ちょうわしないだろう。

    A purple carpet will not go with this red curtain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 紫

  • 紫purple; violetOnシKunむらさき

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store