► 名詞
色 [(2)いろ] meaning: color rank: 1
☆ 彼女は色が白い ⇨ She has fair skins
☆ 明るい色と暗い色 ⇨ Bright colors and dark colors
色 [(2)いろ] meaning: appearance rank: 2
☆ チーム全体に焦りの色が見える ⇨ The entire team is showing nervousness, losing composure
☆ 彼には反省の色が全く無い ⇨ He’s not showing any color, sign, of remorse
色 [(2)いろ] [色が濃い] meaning: appearance rank: 2
☆ 敗戦の色が濃厚だ ⇨ The color of a loss is dark. It looks like we are losing the game
色 [(2)いろ] [liter] meaning: sex rank: 3
☆ 英雄色を好む ⇨ Heroes love sex
色 [(2)いろ] [色を付ける] [coll] meaning: favor rank: 4
☆ もう少し色をつけてくれればやっても構わない ⇨ I will do it if you could sweeten the deal a little more
► 接尾辞
色 [しょく] meaning: color rank: 2
☆ 二十四色クレヨン ⇨ A set of 24 color crayons
☆ 単色の生地 ⇨ A monotone, solid color, fabric
色 [しょく] meaning: feel rank: 2
☆ 政治色の強い映画 ⇨ A movie with obvious political messages
☆ 郷土色豊かな料理 ⇨ Dishes filled with local flavors
More examples:
- 残り時間が少なくなって敗色が濃くなってきた ⇨ The time is running out and a defeat is becoming imminent
- 小国は常に大国の顔色を窺わなくていけない ⇨ Small countries always have to watch out for big countries’ moods
- 怪しい男が人の荷物を物色していた ⇨ A suspicious man was rummaging through other people’s stuff
- 桃色小説 ⇨ An erotic novel
- 甘い音色のギター ⇨ A guitar with sweet tones
- 一度に色々な事を言われて頭がごちゃごちゃになった ⇨ I was told so many different things all at the same time, and my head go messy. I got very confused
- 染色体異常 ⇨ A chromosome abnormality
- 多くの男性は女性が髪を掻き上げる仕草に色気を感じる ⇨ Many men find it sexy when women comb up their hair with fingers
- 昨年は色々な災難が相次いだ ⇨ Various misfortunes happened one after another last year
- 人生バラ色とはいかない ⇨ Life is not quite rosy
- 色盲には色々な種類がある ⇨ There are various types of color blindness
- 彼は色々な人の意見を汲み入れるようとしている ⇨ He is trying to take opinions of many people into account
- 落ち着いた色 ⇨ A quiet, subdued, color
- 蛍光色 ⇨ A fluorescent color
- 顔色が悪いけど大丈夫？ ⇨ Are you OK? You look very pale