

As you can see at the top of [this
answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5328/1908), the [color] Scenes
(Black Scene, Red Scene, etc.) in the _Monogatari_ series all include a
parenthesized number beneath the romanized form of the name of the color
shown.

Here's a list of them:

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    ROMANIZED  GLOSS         NUMBER   KANJI(READING)
    aka        "red"          (135)   赤　（あか） 
    kuro       "black"        (629)   黒　（くろ）
    shiro      "white"       (4646)   白　（しろ）
    ki         "yellow"      (0303)   黄　（き）
    ouchi      "lilac"        (349)   楝　（おうち）
    ao         "blue"         (014)   青　（あお）
    momo       "peach"        (372)   桃　（もも）
    moegi      "light green"  (469)   萌黄（もえぎ）
    murasaki   "purple"       (039)   紫　（むらさき）
    
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Question: **What do the numbers mean?**

Possibilities:

  * Something to do with color codes (but this is unlikely because neither "white" nor "black" seems to have a special number)
  * Some sort of character code for either the kanji, the kana reading, or the romanized form (though I haven't come up with anything for this)
  * It's all a clever ruse by Shinbo to confuse us
  * ???


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What do the parenthesized numbers in the [color] Scenes mean?


Most colors can be found in one form or another in image search results from
Google (query `color 8888`). They seem to correspond to knitting yarn color
codes. Some colors are in DMC chart, I couldn't find out where others are
from.


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