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.
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.
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.