confusion of words

[Andy-Ru]

I have a few questions.

Firstly:

Does anyone know the word for the colour "brown"? I've looked in the dictionary, and it comes up as both "棕色" and "褐色", which is the correct one?

Secondly:

What's the difference between 灰色 and 灰白色?

Thirdly:

Are there seperate words for "rat" and "mouse" or are they both 老鼠?

Thanks

[Koneko]

Re 1:- Both 棕色 and 褐色 are correct. But I would say that the latter is more commonly used in daily conversations. There's also another common term 巧克力色 (lit. chocolate colour)

Re 2:- 灰色 = grey colour

灰白色 = greyish white; off-white

Re 3:- No seperate words for "rat" or "mouse"; both known as 老鼠 in Mandarin. It's also commonly known as 耗子 in Northern China.

K.

[Gulao]

The three listed are good for brown. I've also seen 咖啡色.

[Vitas]

All of the above are correct translations for brown in Chinese, while in Cantonese 啡色 is more comonly used

I think both "棕色" and "褐色 are seen more often in written Chinese. 咖啡色 is usually used on labels on products