唐紅

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
から
Grade: S
くれない
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

From  (から) (Kara, (Tang dynasty) China) +  (くれない) (kurenai, crimson).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

唐紅 (hiragana からくれない, rōmaji Kara-kurenai, historical hiragana からくれなゐ)

  1. Chinese red; deep crimson
    • 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 5, poem 294; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 17)
       () (はや)ぶる (かみ) ()きかず (たつ) () (がは)からくれなゐ (みづ)くくるとは
      chihayaburu kamiyo mo kikazu Tatsuta-gawa Kara-kurenai ni mizu kukuru to wa
      I have not heard that, e'en in the age of the Mighty Gods the rivers draped in vivid (literally Chinese) red as is that of Tatsuta.[2]

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: S
べに
Grade: 6
jūbakoyomi

From  (とう) (, (Tang dynasty) Chinaforeign) +  (べに) (beni, crimson).

Pronunciation

Noun

唐紅 (hiragana とうべに, rōmaji tōbeni, historical hiragana たうべに)

  1. Synonym of フクシン (fukushin): fuchsine

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Joseph Henry Longford (1919) Japan of the Japanese, C. Scribner's sons, original from the University of Michigan, page 160
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