Cantonese word for brown

[Darragh]

Hi, can someone tell me the Cantonese word for the color "brown?" I am writing a novel in which one character is multilingual, and can't find any simple, basic Chinese-English dictionaries that don't cost a fortune. I just need the one word.

[Michael Thigpen]

啡色 (literally 'coffee color'). Pronounced /fe/ --sik--. You can also say 咖啡色 ga /fe/ --sik--.0

Note that the slants and dashes are there to indicate a tone mark. Normally, though, the marks are placed above the main vowel. I've adopted this way of marking tones because if you have both chinese characters and vowels with accent marks on a webpage, the accent marks get messed up.

So if you are trying to describe a person speaking Cantonese in a story you would want to use accented vowels instead of the slants and dashes.

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[andy]

In mandarin, we also use the word 棕色。 /zong se/

[Jan]

Perfect andy but this is a Cantonese forum

[CFT]

棕色 is used in Cantonese as well. It's a more formal way, maybe even proper, of saying it since the colour brown existed in Chinese history before we got coffee.

[gondri]

Brown is great color for background of this web site.