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So I was looking at a modular kit that was made in Japan, and inside of the
box were some ink labels (I think CMYK). Here is a picture: [![Ink
labels](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZwJaU.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZwJaU.jpg)

I recognized three of the four kanji. The first being 墨 (black ink), third as
赤 (red), and the fourth as 黄 (yellow), but I cannot seem to recognize the
second label. I have looked by radical and in the WWWJDIC dictonary by Jim
Breen and could not find it. Could someone tell me what this is? I used the
search terms "blue", "azure", and "cyan".
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translation kanji colors
Ink label kanji?
It's 藍 -- the character for indigo.
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I don't think this is actually Japanese. The normal terms for CYMK ink colours
are シアン : イエロー : マゼンタ : クロ, whereas these appear to be the Chinese words for
"Black, Blue, Red, Yellow". (I don't know much Chinese, but the first entry
for 青い in a J-C dictionary is 藍.) If you look at the Chinese Wikipedia article
<https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%B0%E5%88%B7%E5%9B%9B%E5%88%86%E8%89%B2%E6%A8%A1%E5%BC%8F>
you will see that these do not match the standard Chinese terminology either.
Something makes me think that these were generated in a country which does not
speak either Japanese or Chinese, by asking someone who did not know anything
about printing.
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