唐紅

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
唐	紅
から Grade: S	くれない Grade: 6
kun’yomi

From 唐(から) (Kara, “(Tang dynasty) China”) + 紅(くれない) (kurenai, “crimson”), contrast with alternative spelling 韓紅 (literally “Korean crimson”).

Alternative forms

• 韓紅

Noun

唐(から)紅(くれない) • (Kara-kurenai) ^{←からくれなゐ (karakurenawi)?}

1. Chinese red; deep crimson
   • 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 5, poem 294; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 17)

     千(ち)早(はや)ぶる神(かみ)世(よ)もきかず竜(たつ)田(た)川(がは)からくれなゐに水(みづ)くくるとは

     chihayaburu kamiyo mo kikazu Tatsuta-gawa Kara-kurenai ni mizu kukuru to wa

     I have not heard that, e'en in the age of the Mighty Gods the rivers draped in vivid (literally Chinese) red as is that of Tatsuta.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.
2. a Kara-kurenai-colored thread or cloth
3. Synonym of 寒紅梅 (kankōbai): an ume cultivar, Prunus mume var. mume f. alphandii
4. a 伽羅 (kyara)-class of incense

Citations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.

Idioms

• 唐(から)紅(くれない)の涙(なみだ) (Kara-kurenai no namida)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
唐	紅
とう Grade: S	べに Grade: 6
jūbakoyomi

From 唐(とう) (Tō, “(Tang dynasty) China → foreign”) + 紅(べに) (beni, “crimson”).

Noun

唐(とう)紅(べに) • (tōbeni) ^{←たうべに (taubeni)?}

1. Synonym of フクシン (fukushin): fuchsine