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I saw both used for brown but looking at Google Translate it doesn't help me to understand what the difference is between the two. Can someone help me.

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　 茶色 　　/ 茶色い, 茶色の

ちゃいろ　/　 ちゃいろい

Noun　　 / 　　Adj.

https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/380841

　　「赤い(red)」　　　「青い(blue)」　　　「白い(white)」　　　「黒い(black)」　

　　「黄色い(yellow)」　　　「茶色い(blown)」　　　-- adjectives.

The tricky part is ...

Sometimes, you can't add　　 い 　　 at the end.

noun:　　　noun+の　　 ("no" adjective)

みどり：　　 みどりの 　　 green

むらさき：　　 むらさきの　　 purple

ピンク：　　 ピンクの 　　 pink

Anything else that 's tricky or interesting ?

　　　　　　　Brownish　 　　茶色っぽい

There's an elaborate 5- year old page here: Historical differences between colors that are i-adjectives and those that are simply nouns

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    The formatting in your answers is very hard to read. Maybe you could avoid putting strange spacing into your comments and answers? –  Sep 14 '16 at 22:58
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    全角ブランクだ！that's the way Japanese is formatted on a computer. In a way, it could be considered part of the Japanese language. All of us on this side of the pond had to get used to it ;) – Mark Sep 14 '16 at 23:11
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    @Mark そういう問題ではないと思いますが・・・ –  Sep 15 '16 at 00:28
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    @Mark No, we would say 全角スペース. – broccoli facemask Sep 15 '16 at 04:52
  • It's an IT term I guess. Those things cause us so much trouble (I work in Japan with all Japanese) – Mark Sep 15 '16 at 04:59
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    I have to admit that I also never have read an answer of yours because of difficult-to-read formatting. Using 全角スペース as a hack for alignment tabs etc. might work if we had a font where the full-width space is displayed as such across all devices and browsers. Unfortunately such a font doesn't exist. – Earthliŋ Sep 15 '16 at 06:13
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    http://i.stack.imgur.com/EhE1j.png – Earthliŋ Sep 15 '16 at 06:22