{"id":1563,"date":"2013-02-01T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2013-02-01T03:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T03:22:02","slug":"thai-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/thai-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been writing these blogs for a few years now and it\u2019s just occured to me that I haven\u2019t done a post on colors. Sure, I did a post on the <\/span>Thai colors of the day<\/a>, but that didn\u2019t cover all the colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main colors in Thai are the same colors we use in English. The one exception is that there are two types of blue in Thai \u2013 regular blue, and sky blue \u2013 and they are considered as different as green and yellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

In English science class we are taught that there are only three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. By mixing these three colors you can get any other color in the spectrum. In Thai science class students are taught there are five primary colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and black. Scientifically, white is a combination of red, yellow, and blue electromagnetic waves, while black is the absence of color (such as space). The Thai view comes from the artistic concept that mixing red, yellow, and blue paint results in the color black, and an empty sheet of paper with no color is white.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thai also has other colors equivalent to crimson red, saffron, magenta, metallic blue, etc. \u2013 but I won\u2019t be teaching those fancy words here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Thai word for color is see5 <\/span>\u0e2a\u0e35<\/strong>, and this word must precede the color name. The color name works as an adjective to the word \u2018color\u2019. For example red is see4 daeng1 <\/span>\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e41\u0e14\u0e07<\/strong>, green is see5 kiew5 <\/span>\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e40\u0e02\u0e35\u0e22\u0e27<\/strong>, and black is see5 dum1 <\/span>\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e14\u0e33<\/strong>. You can also be more specific by adding additional adjectives after, such as specifying the shade (awn2 <\/span>\u0e2d\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e19<\/strong> for \u2018light\u2019, gae2 <\/span>\u0e41\u0e01\u0e48<\/strong> for \u2018dark\u2019), etc. Dark pink would be see5 chom1puu1 gae2 <\/span>\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e0a\u0e21\u0e1e\u0e39\u0e41\u0e01\u0e48<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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English<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Karaoke<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Thai<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Color<\/td>\nSee5<\/td>\n\u0e2a\u0e35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary colors<\/td>\nMae3 see5<\/td>\n\u0e41\u0e21\u0e48\u0e2a\u0e35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dark<\/td>\nGae2 \/ klum4<\/td>\n\u0e41\u0e01\u0e48 \/ \u0e04\u0e25\u0e49\u0e33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bright (as in an enhanced color)<\/td>\nSod2<\/td>\n\u0e2a\u0e14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light (as in a light shade)<\/td>\nAawn2<\/td>\n\u0e2d\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Red<\/td>\nDaeng1<\/td>\n\u0e41\u0e14\u0e07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Green<\/td>\nKiew5<\/td>\n\u0e40\u0e02\u0e35\u0e22\u0e27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blue<\/td>\nNam4ngern1<\/td>\n\u0e19\u0e49\u0e33\u0e40\u0e07\u0e34\u0e19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sky blue (it\u2019s a commonly used color)<\/td>\nFaa4<\/td>\n\u0e1f\u0e49\u0e32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yellow<\/td>\nLueang5<\/td>\n\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange (also the name of the fruit)<\/td>\nSom3<\/td>\n\u0e2a\u0e49\u0e21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brown (also the name of brown sugar)<\/td>\nNam4dtaan2<\/td>\n\u0e19\u0e49\u0e33\u0e15\u0e32\u0e25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pink<\/td>\nChom1puu1<\/td>\n\u0e0a\u0e21\u0e1e\u0e39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
White (*not* spelled nor pronounced like \u2018rice\u2019)<\/td>\nKaow5<\/td>\n\u0e02\u0e32\u0e27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black<\/td>\nDum1<\/td>\n\u0e14\u0e33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Purple<\/td>\nMuang3<\/td>\n\u0e21\u0e48\u0e27\u0e07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grey<\/td>\nTow1<\/td>\n\u0e40\u0e17\u0e32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gold (or \u2018blonde\u2019 for hair)<\/td>\nTawng1<\/td>\n\u0e17\u0e2d\u0e07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Silver<\/td>\nNgern1<\/td>\n\u0e40\u0e07\u0e34\u0e19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rainbow<\/td>\nRung4<\/td>\n\u0e23\u0e38\u0e49\u0e07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn the colors in Thai.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10208],"tags":[48,254644,229593,10177,7664],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","tag-color","tag-dark","tag-red","tag-thai","tag-yellow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}