Interesting differences between how to describe colors in English and Chinese

Did you know that blue is the most popular color in the West while red is the most used color in China and Eastern countries?

Western culture and language with the East has many differences, even in the description of colors shows that. Muyueh Lee created very interesting and intuitive descriptive images of this difference. It shows that the number of colors in English is much larger in Chinese, besides the use of color is also different.

In the image above, the colors in English are described in the left and right circles are Chinese. Describe the colors according to the Hue-Saturation-Lightness (HSL) values, in which the Hue tones are depicted in the corners of the circle and the Saturation saturation is described by diameter.

Not only that, Muyueh Lee also relies on statistics from Wikipedia's color library to synthesize other interesting comparisons. Below, we can see the most used colors in the West are blue, green and pink.

Meanwhile the most used colors in China and the East are red, blue and green. Lee also described many other interesting comparisons at his website, you can go here to see more visually.

Reference: Gizmodo