"purple" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 酱紫 醬紫 | dark reddish purple / Internet slang abbr. for 這樣子|这样子[zhe4 yang4 zi5] | ||
| 紫红色 紫紅色 | red-purple / mauve / prune (color) / claret | ||
| 紫晶 | amethyst (purple crystalline silicon dioxide) | ||
| 紫金山 | Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum | ||
| 紫袍 | purple qipao gown, the sign of an official position | ||
| 紫草 | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | ||
| 檀 | sandalwood / hardwood / purple-red | syn | |
| 绯 緋 | dark red / purple silk | syn | |
| 绛 絳 | purple-red | syn | |
| 绀 紺 | violet or purple | ||
| 緅 | purple silk | ||
| 腰金衣紫 | golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom) / in official position | ||
| 紫金山天文台 | Purple Mountain Observatory | ||
| 参薯 參薯 | Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop) | ||
| 心里美萝卜 心裡美蘿蔔 | Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable | ||
| 暗紫色 | dark purple | ||
| 白苋紫茄 白莧紫茄 | white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom) / common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle | ||
| 紫气 紫氣 | purple cloud (auspicious portent in astrology) | ||
| 紫菜苔 | purple cabbage / Brassica campestris var. purpurea | ||
| 葡萄紫 | grayish purple color | ||
| 紫甘蓝 紫甘藍 | red cabbage / purple cabbage | ||
| 草鹭 草鷺 | (bird species of China) purple heron (Ardea purpurea) | ||
| 千屈菜 | purple loosestrife | ||
| 绛紫 絳紫 | dark reddish purple | ||
| 北椋鸟 北椋鳥 | (bird species of China) Daurian starling / purple-backed starling (Agropsar sturninus) | ||
| 紫宽嘴鸫 紫寬嘴鶇 | (bird species of China) purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea) | ||
| 紫色花蜜鸟 紫色花蜜鳥 | (bird species of China) purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) | ||
| 蓝枕花蜜鸟 藍枕花蜜鳥 | (bird species of China) purple-naped spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum) | ||
| 紫砂 | a type of clay found in the region of Yixing 宜興|宜兴[Yi2 xing1], used to make Yixing stoneware, with its distinctive russet or dark purple coloring | ||
| 紫米 | black rice / purple rice |