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  2. 灰色

はいいろ

灰色

N2

gray

haiiro

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JLPT
N2
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#11,668

Meanings

  1. 1
    grey; gray; ashennountakes の

JMdict 1201970

In a sentence

灰色(はいいろ)がgray好(す)きlike

I like the color gray

How it works

With "like/dislike" words, the thing you like is marked by が (subject), not the object particle — so 灰色(はいいろ) (gray) takes が (subject). 好き(すき) (like) is actually an adjective in Japanese, not a verb, so this reads literally as "gray is likeable (to me)". The speaker "I" is left unsaid.

Written with

  • 灰ashes6 strokes
  • 色color6 strokes

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