1The color purple or violet — a common everyday color name used for clothing, flowers, dyes, and more.
彼女は紫のドレスを着てパーティーに行った。
She wore a purple dress to the party.
庭には紫の花がたくさん咲いている。
Many purple flowers are blooming in the garden.
夕焼けの空が赤から紫へと変わっていった。
The sunset sky gradually changed from red to purple.
紫は昔から高貴さを表す色とされてきた。
Purple has long been regarded as a color symbolizing nobility.
2The plant purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon), whose root has traditionally been used to make purple dye. Now rare in the wild; encountered mainly in botanical or historical contexts.
ムラサキの根は古くから紫色の染料に使われてきた。
The root of purple gromwell has long been used to make purple dye.
3An old-fashioned word for soy sauce, said to originate from Edo-period craftsmen's slang. Essentially unused in modern Japanese.