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Kanji Detail for 紫 - "purple, soy sauce"
紫
- Meaning
紫 means "purple, soy sauce."
Purple - Name of a color; a color made by mixing red and blue.
Soy sauce - Refers to soy sauce.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
purple; violet
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
purple, violet; amethyst; surname
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
purple; violet
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
purple, violet; amethyst; surname
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A color between blue and red. | 紫綬 (purple ribbon). Anciently there was the title 金紫光祿大夫. Meaning gold seal and purple ribbon. Traditionally, easily attaining high rank is called 取青紫如拾芥 (taking blue and purple like picking mustard). The phrase seen in (Book of Han).
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