銅色(あかがねいろ)

あかがねいろ
noun
copper color; bronze color
literarycolor
1. 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(あかがねいろ)に焼(や)けた肌(はだ)。
Skin tanned to a copper color.
Lit by the setting sun, the roof shone with a copper glow.
海(うみ)で過(す)ごした夏(なつ)の終(お)わりには、子(こ)どもたちの肌(はだ)は銅色(あかがねいろ)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(あかがね) is an old native word for copper ("red metal"); the ordinary modern word is 銅(どう). The same spelling is more often read 銅色(どういろ); the reading あかがねいろ belongs to literary and descriptive writing.

Similar words

  • 赤銅色(しゃくどういろ): dark reddish brown — the set phrase for deeply sun-tanned skin (赤銅色(しゃくどういろ)の肌(はだ))
  • 銅色(どういろ): copper color — the same color with the everyday reading