濡羽 - Beautiful Black hair -

濡羽 - Beautiful Black hair - - KUDEN by TAKAHIRO SATO
Japanese is known as one of the most difficult languages in the world.
However, because of this, it has a wide range of expressions, and there are many "beautiful Japanese" from ancient to modern words.
Here, we would like to introduce some of the "Beautiful Japanese" selected by the KUDEN team as "Beautiful Letters."

The shape of the letters is of course beautiful, but if you know the meaning, you can feel the depth of the beauty even more.
We hope you enjoy learning Japanese language not often listed in textbooks.


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Today's Beautiful Japanese

濡羽

Beautiful Black hair
(Jet Black)

noun
Read : Nure Ba (ぬれば)
Daily use: Not often



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[ Meaning ]

The color is a moist, glossy black like the feathers of a raven wet with water.

Japanese quoted from :  goo辞書


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The meaning and the translation are not connected!
Do you think so?
Since ancient times, “hair is the color of raven's wet feathers(濡羽色)” has been used as a word to describe the black, beautiful hair of a woman.
In this way, it is a word that describes the jet black color of wet raven feathers, which contain beautiful shine and some nuanced coloring.
It is used as a word of praise for a woman's black hair.