Pink (color)

A soft pink (English hotpink )
color code: # ff69b4

Pink is the English word for the carnation and for the color pink . The word has also been used in German-speaking countries since around 1980. While the English pink corresponds to the German pink, the German pink means a strong, rich, mostly bluish pink or purple pink. This color also occurs occasionally in nature, u. a. in carnations, roses and rhododendrons .

Common blue carnation ( Dianthus barbatus )

etymology

The noun pink is the English word for carnation . Pink is a common word in Middle English and means 'to slash' or 'perforate'. The name of the plant thus refers to the typically slit or frayed edge of its flower. Pink has been documented as a flower name in English since 1573. In 1681 the word appears for the first time in the combination pink-colored as a color name. Pink has been used as a single color name in English since 1828.

hue

Shocking Pink
color code: # fc0fc0

It is controversial whether the word pink in German describes a different hue than the word pink , or whether one can also call pink tones pink. Some sources say that pink represents more intense purples than pink . This idea probably goes back to the color shocking pink , a trademark of the designer Elsa Schiaparelli . This shade, also known as hot pink , was first used in 1937 to design the box for her “Shocking” perfume. Shocking pink is similar to the colors magenta or fuchsia .

Web colors

There are defined web colors for creating websites, but their names are based on the English understanding of pink. The two colors given above, hot pink and shocking pink, would also be called pink in German. hot pink is a little lighter and less bluish and therefore softer than shocking pink .

The lighter shades of light pink and pink would, however, be correctly designated as pink in German.

The strong, but hardly bluish deep pink ("deep pink") could possibly also be referred to in German as pink, or (e.g. when describing a flower) as a strong dark pink or carmine pink ; possibly also as pink.

deeppink
color code: # ff1493

hotpink
color code: # ff69b4

pink
color code: # ffc0cb

lightpink
color code: # ffb6c1

Others

rust-leaved alpine rose ( rhododendron ferrugineum )

• The color-light therapy Aura-Soma , which was developed in England in the 1980s and is also known in Central Europe and internationally, uses the terms “pink” and “pale pink” in the English sense for the colors “pink” and “pale pink”. The corresponding colors are therefore not pink, as one would normally understand it in German usage.
• The American colloquial language knows pink (pink!) Within an idiomatic description of particularly fresh and healthy-looking contemporaries: looks like she's in the pink , analogously, she looks like life in bloom .
• The Americans refer to the little finger as "pinkie" (also called pinky ) and in some regions also the little toe .
• June 23rd is part of the frame calendar of the curious holidays and is celebrated in the USA as Pink Day ( National Pink Day ) .
• Pinkification is a term derived from gender theory.

literature

• Caroline Kaufmann: On the semantics of the color adjectives pink, pink and red - A corpus-based comparative study based on the color carrier concept . (PDF; 1.78 MB). Dissertation for the Doctor of Philosophy. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0652-8 .

Web links

Commons : Pink  - collection of images

• List of different shades of pink (pink, rose) in the English language Wikipedia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Langenscheidt concise dictionary of English. 2010, ISBN 978-3-468-05130-2 .
2. ↑ Do pink and pink mean the same color? In: Die Zeit , No. 43/2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Fussy, Ulrike Steiner: Austrian Dictionary . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. 42nd edition. öbv, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-209-07361-7 (“pink: pink pink that, -s: one color, intense, purple pink”).
4. ^ Collins Dictionary.
5. ^ Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary. New. ed., 1996, p. 763.
6. ^ The Oxford English Dictionary on Compact Disc. 1993.
7. ^ Elsa Schiaparelli: Shocking Pink . Retrieved January 4, 2013.
8. ↑ Shocking by Elsa Schiaparelli. November 4, 2012, accessed April 8, 2014 (description of the perfume with a color photo of the packaging ). 
9. ↑ Jürgen Kohlenberg: color names. In: CODE-Knacker - Lexicon of Codes, Symbols, Abbreviations. May 16, 2011, accessed May 27, 2011 : “deeppink - Tiefrosa: # ff1493; 255,20,147. hotpink - bright pink: # ff69b4; 255,105,180. lightpink - light pink: # ffb6c1; 255,182,193. pink - pink: # ffc0cb; 255,192,203. " 
10. ↑ Quote: "When light is brought into the color red, it changes to pink, or in the language used in Aura-Soma to« pink »." Irene Dalichow, Mike Booth: Aura-Soma - healing through color, plant- and Edelsteinergie , Knaur / MensSana, 1994/2003, pp. 58-59; also pp. 103-104.
11. ↑ the American National Pink Day kuriose-feiertage.de

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