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Kanji for Purple
The kanji for “purple” is 紫, read shi and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
紫
purple
Purple, once the color of the highest court rank in Japan.
12 strokes On reading シ (shi) Kun reading むらさき (murasaki) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: purple, violet
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shi
In Japan it appears in about 400 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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