那顆水果
核心本身：拿在手上、剝得開、吃得到的那個東西。
noun · B1
A small citrus fruit like a little orange, sweet with a sour edge, whose loose skin comes off easily with your fingers.
橘子
核心畫面
Hold the fruit in your hand: a small citrus you can open with a thumb, and a skin so bright that the skin itself became worth naming. Everything this word does starts from that piece of peel — first the fruit, then the colour of it.
可以想成手上那顆小橘子：用大拇指一撥就開，果皮亮得讓人記住。這個字的每一種用法都是從那片皮長出來的——先是那顆水果本…更多收起
可以想成手上那顆小橘子：用大拇指一撥就開，果皮亮得讓人記住。這個字的每一種用法都是從那片皮長出來的——先是那顆水果本身，再來是那片皮的顏色，最後顏色又被拿去形容天空、衣服和球衣。From the word’s history
From French Tanger (Tangier, the Moroccan port) plus -ine: literally the fruit from Tangier, the harbour it was shipped out of. A place name became a fruit name, and then a colour name.
來自法文 Tanger，也就是摩洛哥的港口 Tangier，加上表示「來自那裡的」-ine。字面上是「丹吉爾來的果子」，因為早年這種橘子從那個港口運出去。一個地名先變成果名，果名再變成顏色名。
Wiktionary entries supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:132223887:23745), etymology_text: From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
Two branches
那片皮的顏色
從果皮直接搬到顏色上：講出水果名，聽的人就知道是哪一種橘，比單說 orange 準得多。
noun · B2
A bright orange colour with some yellow in it, the colour of the fruit's skin.
橘色