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copper color; bronze color
A warm, reddish-brown color resembling polished copper. Used to describe skin tanned by the sun, metallic surfaces, or autumn foliage.
銅色に焼けた肌。
Skin tanned to a copper color.
夕日に照らされて屋根が銅色に輝いた。
Lit by the setting sun, the roof shone with a copper glow.
海で過ごした夏の終わりには、子どもたちの肌は銅色になっていた。
By the end of a summer spent at the beach, the children's skin had turned a bronze color.
銅 is a classical Japanese word for copper (literally "red metal"), in contrast to the more common modern reading 銅. The compound 銅色 has a literary and evocative quality. It is often used to describe well-tanned skin (銅色の肌) and conveys a warm, healthy, outdoorsy image. The more colloquial equivalent would be 銅色, though {あかがねいろ} is preferred in literary or descriptive writing.