Color Names

Fēi Hóng Scarlet

Fēi hóng is Chinese for scarlet: a bright, flushed red like lantern silk.

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Fēi Hóng Scarlet is a bright red.

It can be described as bright, vivid, brilliant and glowing.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Fēi Hóng Scarlet

Fei Hong

Fei Hong was a Chinese scholar-official during the Ming dynasty. He served in high-ranking positions in the central government during the reigns of the Zhengde and Jiajing emperors in the early 16th century, including grand secretary and head of the Grand Secretariat from 1524 to 1527.

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Scarlet (color)

Scarlet is a bright red color, sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion.

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scarlet

Noun

  1. A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
  2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

Adjective

  1. Of a bright red colour.
  2. Sinful or whorish.
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