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ON the interesting observation on Chinese names of colours of Mr. H. Crook, in NATURE (January 11), I would add this little information. Prof. Giles in his great dictionary gives (No. 4845) as “a very light violet colour”; Wells Williams (p. 820) as “a purple colour.” Mr. de Zelinski and Clémence Royer, in an interesting note “Sur les noms des couleurs en japonais” (“Congrès internat. des Orientalistes, Compte rendu de la ière session, Paris, 1873, vol. i., pp. 83–87), give another example, in Japanese, of the same kind.
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VACCA, G. Chinese Names of Colours. Nature 73, 365 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073365e0
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