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# English

I sometimes see both 桃色 and ピンク translated to "pink."

In Japanese, are 桃色 and ピンク the same colors, or do they refer to similar but
different colors?

# Japanese

たまに「桃色」と「ピンク」が英語の「pink」に訳されているのを見かけます。

日本語だと、桃色とピンクはまったく同じ色ですか、あるいは似ているけれど違う色ですか。
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Are 桃色 and ピンク the same color or are they slightly different colors?
I think mostly Japanese people think 桃色 and ピンク(pink) are same color and I
thought so, but their color seem to be a bit different after my searching.

Pink is a color of flowers of dianthus. 桃色 is a color of flowers of peach.
Peach is close to a color of meat of peach. So, that is to say, 桃色 is more
close to a color of peach blossom than pink, isn't it?

Source <https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%83%E8%89%B2>
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I'm not sure there is an exact answer for this, much like if you asked someone
if "indigo" and "purple" were different colors. From what I can see, 桃色 and
ピンク are practically interchangeable.

[This color
chart](http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/31/0000284131/82/img32a0d1b9ey2zz3.png)
shows both colors as different. ピンク is standard pink and 桃色 is closer to peach
color. However, a 桃 isn't like a Western peach, it has many shades, many of
which are like the Western pink color.

[This chart](http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand/8819/webjpcol.html) doesn't
have a 桃色 entry at all, only ピンク. You'll notice it has a ピーチ entry as well.

Color naming is not scientific, except for RGB, CMYK, etc systems. It's
subjective, so much like "scarlet" and "red", 桃色 and ピンク appear to be
interchangeable.
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[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hrv8c.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hrv8c.png)

From my (subjective) understanding, the bag on the left is both 桃色 and ピンク (or
明るいピンク), while the bag on the right is ピンク (or 濃いピンク,
[ショッキングピンク](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/111691/meaning/m0u/)) but not 桃色.

桃色 is usually associated with a _juvenile_ , _girly_ , or _cute_ image (cf.
[桃色片思い](http://www.kasi-time.com/item-9609.html)). ピンク also has a cute image,
but ピンク is a color with various images, and one of them is _adult_ and _sexy_
(eg. ピンク街 is "red-light district" in Japanese).
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If you use 桃色 and ピンク to describe color they are mostly same. But in Japanese
we sometime use these color to express emotion or attitude. For example if I
say お前の頭の中ピンク色過ぎ。 This means you always think sexual things. so ピンク sometimes
used to explain something related to sexual thing.
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