THE MEANING OF COLOR TERM IN CHINESE AND INDONESIAN IDIOMS: NATURAL SEMANTIC METALANGUAGE APPROACH

Every human being has the same vision for colors. On other hand, idioms –as an embodiment of expression experience, can certainly be a medium expressing universal meaning possessed by humans across cultures, including Through colors term in idioms, universality mind known. Natural Semantic Metalanguage is approach that tries to see language. By using six-color Morris Swadesh word list, this study aims find out Indonesian and Mandarin. This shows 'black' Mandarin universal. Moreover, 'black', 'green' 'red' concept associating with objects conditions.