Why are 黄瓜 (cucumber huang2gua1) called "yellow gourd" in Chinese?
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Names for colors arose relatively late in human history and tend to be unique to each culture and are usually not loan words, the only exception being orange, which tended just about everywhere to be named for the fruit of that color, which is interesting, it's probably the last of the colors identified in common human speech.
Why are 黄瓜 (cucumber huang2gua1) called "yellow gourd" in Chinese?
Why are 黄瓜 (cucumber huang2gua1) called…
Why are 黄瓜 (cucumber huang2gua1) called "yellow gourd" in Chinese?
Names for colors arose relatively late in human history and tend to be unique to each culture and are usually not loan words, the only exception being orange, which tended just about everywhere to be named for the fruit of that color, which is interesting, it's probably the last of the colors identified in common human speech.