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Color:
Mandarin


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Colors with the same hue:
Mahogany
Metallic brown
Rust
Tobacco
Sinopia
Henna
Sorrel
Flame
Vivid vermilion
Ember
Fiery Orange
Pale copper
Coral
Nectarine
Light Orange
Soft Peach
Delicate Coral
Similar colors:
Coral
Nectarine
Burnt sienna
Char
Vivid vermilion
Fiery Orange
Bittersweet
Tomato
Poppy
Flame
Fire opal
Cadmium orange
Faded Orange
Terra cotta
Ember
Cinnabar
Bamboo
Dull Orange
Ochre
Molten Gold
Dingy Orange
Burnt orange
Salmon
Bronze
Cantaloupe
Light Orange
Faded Red
Light brown
Vermilion
Pumpkin
Words evoked by this color:
fetched,  gingerly,  tilled,  rusticate,  conical,  corti,  griot,  angkor,  ruskin,  adelaide,  boomerang,  turner,  geochemical,  anthropological,  rustled,  buttressed,  admonished,  admonishing,  admonish,  obstinacy,  abscise,  discontinued,  authentically,  kumbaya,  retrograde,  gathered,  toby,  uprooting,  uprooted,  uproot,  resettled,  emigrant,  reparation,  pliocene,  haggle,  afoot,  sojourn,  peregrinate,  peregrination,  bargaining,  ernest,  perched,  recaptured,  accumulative,  sedulous,  peripatetic,  munch,  hoo,  pawnee,  moses
Literary analysis:
In literature the term “mandarin” has at times been employed to evoke the warm, zesty hues characteristic of the fruit, as well as the refined and delicate shades found in Chinese porcelain. For example, one writer directly names the color “mandarin‐orange,” calling to mind the vibrancy of the citrus’s peel and flesh [1]. In another passage the color is described as shifting to “a fine yellow almost of the colour of ‘mandarin’ china,” suggesting a subtle gradation that hints at both luminosity and cultural delicacy [2]. A further example uses the mandarin orange as a simile to compare sizes, again relying on the fruit’s distinctive coloration to create a vivid image [3]. Through such uses, “mandarin” emerges not just as a hue but as a symbol imbued with cultural, aesthetic, and sensory resonance in literary descriptions.
  1. Chu-sha-kih .—The mandarin-orange.
    — from Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn
  2. The colour grew lighter as it rose, with gradation so fine as to be imperceptible, changing to a fine yellow almost of the colour of "mandarin" china.
    — from The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
  3. They vary in size from a little mass or kernel, only to be discovered after careful search, to the bulk of a hen's egg or a mandarin orange.
    — from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 1 Pathology and General Diseases


Colors associated with the word:
Tangerine
Apricot
Peach 
Coral
Amber 
Sunset
Pumpkin
Persimmon
Cantaloupe
Nectarine
Honey
Saffron
Marigold
Butterscotch
Copper
Words with similar colors:
range,  sporange,  navel,  satsuma,  orang,  ange,  clementine,  orange,  hamlin,  tangential,  persimmon,  tango,  tangerine,  tangelo,  t'ang,  jaffa,  tangier,  ora,  kumquat,  sunrise
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