Cultural Differences Viewed from Color-related Words

摘要

Color is a kind of objective phenomenon in nature and natural color consists of seven chromatic lights. Finding their way into the language, color words have two main functions, i.e. to the colors are named and to be entrusted with figurative senses that abound both in the Chinese and English languages. This paper briefly discusses the differences between Chinese and English color-related words and analyzes the cultural difference reflected upon them.