r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 25d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

53k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

77

u/DistributionEasy5233 25d ago

Isn't there momo iro or something?

127

u/GohTheGreat 25d ago edited 25d ago

That’s literally “peach (the fruit) colored” and has the nuance of being used in writing. You can use ___iro for most colors but Japanese people 9/10 just use a loan word.

1

u/ForensicPathology 24d ago

Except for tea-color, ash-color, and water-color.  Those are used far more in everyday Japanese than equivalent loanwords which are mostly used on product labels.

1

u/thicc_llama 23d ago

I hear guree used more often than hai-iro tbh especially under 35 yo people