紫
紫 — ja
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 자줏빛 자
- Romanization
- ja
- English
- purple, violet; amethyst; surname
- Mandarin
- zǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- むらさき
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,516 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 糸 (120, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7D2B
Parts that make up 紫
How 紫 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 紫 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 此, 糸.
Korean example words with 紫
- 자연紫煙 Korean gloss: 보랏빛 연기
- 자기紫氣 Korean gloss: 자줏빛의 기운
- 자색紫色 Korean gloss: 짙은 남빛을 띤 붉은색. 또는 그런 색의 물감
- 자단紫檀 Korean gloss: 콩과의 상록 활엽 교목. 높이는 10미터 이상이며 잎은 어긋나고 겹잎으로 원형 또는 넓은 타원형이다. 나무껍질이 자줏빛이고 여
- 암자색暗紫色 Korean gloss: 어두운 자주색
- 자갈색紫褐色 Korean gloss: 자줏빛을 띤 갈색
- 자마노紫瑪瑙 Korean gloss: 자줏빛을 띤 마노
- 자홍색紫紅色 Korean gloss: 자줏빛을 띤 붉은색
- 자흑색紫黑色 Korean gloss: 자줏빛을 띤 검은색
- 자하문紫霞門 Korean gloss: ‘창의문’의 다른 이름
- 자주색紫朱色 Korean gloss: 짙은 남빛을 띤 붉은색. 또는 그런 색의 물감
- 자단향紫檀香 Korean gloss: 자단을 잘게 깎아서 만든 향. 불에 피우기도 하고 약으로 쓰기도 한다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 紫
- 紫むらさき purple; violet; purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)
- 紫外線しがいせん ultraviolet rays; ultraviolet radiation; UV radiation
- 紫色むらさきいろ purple; violet
- 紫綬褒章しじゅほうしょう Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (awarded for scholarly or artistic achievement)
- 紫紺しこん dark purple; bluish purple
- 紫陽花あじさい bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla); French hydrangea
- 紫雲しうん purple clouds on which Amitabha rides to welcome the spirits of the dead
- 紫煙しえん purple smoke; tobacco smoke
- 紫外しがい ultraviolet; UV
- 紫蘇しそ shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa); perilla; beefsteak plant
- 赤紫あかむらさき purplish red
- 濃紫こむらさき dark purple
Other hanja read “자”
Other hanja with radical 糸
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences