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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


see styles
gàn
    gan4
kan
 kon
    こん

More info & calligraphy:

Violet Color
violet or purple
(noun - becomes adjective with の) navy blue; deep blue; (surname) Konsaki
A violet or purplish colour, a blend of blue and red; also called紺靑 and紺璢璃, the colour of the roots紺髮 or 紺頂 of the Buddha's hair.

發紺


发绀

see styles
fā gàn
    fa1 gan4
fa kan
cyanosis (blue skin due to lack of oxygen in blood)

紺宇


绀宇

see styles
gàn yǔ
    gan4 yu3
kan yü
 konu
紺園; 紺坊; 紺殿 Names for a Buddhist monastery.

紺睫


绀睫

see styles
gàn jié
    gan4 jie2
kan chieh
 konshō
The Buddha's violet or red-blue eyebrows.

紺蒲


绀蒲

see styles
gàn pú
    gan4 pu2
kan p`u
    kan pu
 Konbo
kamboja, described as a round, reddish fruit, the Buddha having something resembling it on his neck, one of his characteristic marks.

紺靑


绀靑

see styles
gàn qīng
    gan4 qing1
kan ch`ing
    kan ching
 konjō
dark purple

紺青


绀青

see styles
gàn qīng
    gan4 qing1
kan ch`ing
    kan ching
 konjou / konjo
    こんじょう
Prussian blue; deep blue; dark blue; ultramarine
a deep blue color

紺頂


绀顶

see styles
gàn dǐng
    gan4 ding3
kan ting
 konchō
violet hair

紺髮


绀发

see styles
gàn fǎ
    gan4 fa3
kan fa
 konpatsu
violet hair

目紺青


目绀青

see styles
mù gàn qīng
    mu4 gan4 qing1
mu kan ch`ing
    mu kan ching
 moku konshō
deep blue eyes

紺琉璃


绀琉璃

see styles
gàn liú lí
    gan4 liu2 li2
kan liu li
 konruri
purple vaiḍūrya; of purple vaiḍūrya

紺蒲國


绀蒲国

see styles
gàn pú guó
    gan4 pu2 guo2
kan p`u kuo
    kan pu kuo
 Konbo koku
The country of Kamboja.

紺青色


绀青色

see styles
gàn qīng sè
    gan4 qing1 se4
kan ch`ing se
    kan ching se
 konjouiro / konjoiro
    こんじょういろ
(See 紺青) Prussian blue; deep blue; dark blue; ultramarine
deep blue color

其目紺青


其目绀青

see styles
qí mù gàn qīng
    qi2 mu4 gan4 qing1
ch`i mu kan ch`ing
    chi mu kan ching
 kimoku konshō
his eyes are deep blue

目紺青色


目绀青色

see styles
mù gàn qīng sè
    mu4 gan4 qing1 se4
mu kan ch`ing se
    mu kan ching se
 moku konshō shiki
eyes that are deep blue in color

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 15 results for "绀" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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