琥珀色

琥珀色

1. amber (color)

   • 天上片雲，作琥珀色，既不受風，亦如如弗動。尚有斜陽光線…… [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     天上片云，作琥珀色，既不受风，亦如如弗动。尚有斜阳光线…… [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (an 1820 short story by Washington Irving), translated into Chinese as《睡洞》 by Lin Shu, et al., first published in 1907

     Tiānshàng piànyún, zuò hǔpòsè, jì bù shòu fēng, yì rúrú fú dòng. Shàngyǒu xiéyáng guāngxiàn...... [Pinyin]

     A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint... (Original text)

From 琥(こ)珀(はく) (kohaku, “amber”) + 色(いろ) (-iro, “color”).

• (Tokyo) こはくいろ [kòhákúíró] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ha̠kɯ̟iɾo̞]

琥(こ)珀(はく)色(いろ) • (kohakuiro) 

1. the color amber

• 琥(こ)珀(はく) (kohaku)

琥珀色 • (hobaksaek) (hangeul 호박색)

1. hanja form^? of 호박색 (“amber (color)”)