Meaning

Primary

Skin Color

Alternative

Skin Tone

Word Type

noun, の adjective

Explanation

Skin color is skin color, or skin tone.

This word originally referred to a pale orange or peach color, and sometimes you'll still see it used that way. But labeling that as 肌色 wasn't inclusive of all skin tones. Now, it simply refers to skin color in general.

Reading

はだいろ
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The readings are the vocab kun'yomi readings of each kanji, and combined into one.

Context

Context Sentences

この絵の女性の肌色、すごく綺麗だね。

The woman's skin tone in this painting is very beautiful.

このキャラクターの肌色は、明るい茶色にしようと思ってるんだ。

I'm thinking of going with a light brown skin tone for this character.

昔「肌色」って呼ばれてたクレヨンや色鉛筆の色の名前は、今は「ペールオレンジ」とか「うすだいだい」に変わってるんだよ。

The names of crayon and colored pencil colors that used to be called "skin tone" have now been changed to "pale orange" or "light orange."

Kanji Composition