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Can we use Kanji for「すみれ」? I want to describe violet color. I've tried 「菫色」to
look [here](http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%8F%AB%E8%89%B2), but no luck..
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Can we use Kanji for 「すみれ」 (violet color)?
It appears so.

For example, it's recognised in this [aggregate
dictionary](http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E8%8F%AB%E8%89%B2).

Japanese Wikipedia also has [a page for
it](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AB%E8%89%B2).

And searching the [Shonagon
corpus](http://www.kotonoha.gr.jp/shonagon/search_form) yields 15 counts of
菫色; 28 counts of すみれ色; and one count of すみれいろ。This indicates that perhaps the
kana variant すみれ is more common, though in literary instances, the kanji
variant is also acceptable. (Although, admittedly, 15 and 28 are too low a
count to do any meaningful statistical analysis.)
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