Illustration: At a small textile workshop in Japan, an adult lifts a vivid purple cotton scarf from a dye basin with wooden tongs. The wet cloth unfolds into a broad, clearly purple surface, and drops fall back into the matching purple liquid. An undyed white scarf lies folded nearby.

JLPT N3no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

紫むらさき色いろ

murasakiiro

purple

Example sentences

  1. 夕暮ゆうぐれ時どき、空そらは紫色むらさきいろの光ひかりに染そまっています。

    At dusk, the sky is tinted with purple light.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 紫色むらさきいろのセーターより灰色はいいろのセーターの方ほうが好すきです。

    The gray sweater I like more than the purple.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. イメージカラーは紫色むらさきいろ。

    The train color is purple.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 紫色

  • 紫purple; violetOnシKunむらさき
  • 色colorOnショク・シキKunいろ

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