Color vocabularies in Chinese

Color vocabularies are widely use in our life, especially in our shopping or business. Do you know color vocabularies in Chinese? Below color vocabularies are very popular:

Black is “黑色”;

White is “白色”;

Transparent is “透明色”;

Red is “红色”;

Green is “绿色”;

Blue is “蓝色”;

Yellow is “红色”;

Grey is “灰色”;

Pink is “粉色”;

Orange is “橙色”;

Purple is “紫色”

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Above are the base color vocabularies, and if you want to say dark green, then you can “深绿”, while light green is “浅绿”. Yes, you are right, dark in Chinese is mean “深（的）”, and light in Chinese means “浅 （的）”.

Further more, Chinese people will describe what the colors like, for example, if we talk a yellow like lemon, then they will say “柠檬黄”; if a blue like the sky, you can say “天空蓝”.