dark-red pigment; rouge
Refers to a traditional dark-red pigment, historically used in cosmetics and dyeing. The word itself is not commonly used in everyday conversation; the pigment is more often referred to by its modern name or described as えんじ色.
Abbreviation of 臙脂色 (えんじいろ). Used as a color name, but in modern Japanese the full form えんじ色 is much more common. The standalone えんじ is mostly seen in traditional or literary contexts.
See also: えんじ色
Refers to the cochineal insect or the red dye derived from it. This sense is technical and historical; the modern term is コチニール.
See also: 生臙脂
Old-fashioned rouge was made from a pigment called えんじ.
She wore a dark-red kimono.
Cochineal is a type of dye obtained from scale insects.
The full, modern term for the dark-red color. えんじ is an abbreviation, rarely used alone.
The modern loanword for cochineal, replacing the traditional えんじ in technical contexts.
Traditional kanji spelling; rarely used in modern Japanese. The word is almost always written in kana.
Standard modern spelling; the kanji forms are archaic and rarely encountered.
Variant kanji spelling; even less common than 臙脂.
Obscure variant; not in practical use.
Borrowed through Chinese 臙脂 or 燕脂, the name of a red cosmetic pigment; the term later developed into a Japanese color name.