May 18
Birthday Color: Oribucha
#464646 · rgb(70, 70, 70) · hsl(0, 0%, 27%) · CMYK(0,0,0,73)
CMYK values are numeric conversions from RGB and may differ from print standards.
Zodiac: Taurus ♉
Color words & personality
Oribucha is the birthday color for May 18. In this system it belongs to a family read as practiced in the use of silence. Its color words point to a pencil's shadow: you exist less in the line than in the quiet beside it. In print, this color shows an almost achromatic stillness, deep and quiet. Placed beside a similar color, this one's character stands out even more.
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Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of May 18
Birth star
Unukalhai
Star words: suppleness, subtlety
Serpens · α Ser · mag 2.63 — Culminates around midnight
Birth fruit
Strawberry
Fruit words: love at first sight, small luxury
Peak: Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar
Lupine comes back on May 18, paired now with a very different color. Its hanakotoba remain motherly love and always happy. Peak season is May to June. The birthday color is Oribucha (#464646), a near-neutral charcoal brown whose color word is "a pencil's shadow." Warmth held inside something gray, the way a promise is kept quietly.
Unukalhai — from the Arabic for 'the serpent's neck' — is the brightest star of Serpens and the birth star of May 18. Latin tradition called it Cor Serpentis, the heart of the snake, as if the whole constellation's spirit lived there. Its star words are suppleness and subtlety. It climbs to its midnight height in the south. The birthday color is Oribucha (#464646), pencil shadow: like a serpent's supple body, a shadow keeps changing shape — softness with a core.
Where mountain streams catch the early light, the birthday fish for May 18 is the Masu salmon (juvenile), holding the words “stream” and “origin”. Salt-grilled over a steady fire, its crisp skin sets off the mild sweetness of the flesh. Its peak season is May. The birth color of the day is Oribucha #464646, settled as a pencil's shadow. Bring a breath of the stream to today's table.
May 18 belongs to the Strawberry (イチゴ). A berry of the season, the Strawberry arrives from Dec and Jan and Feb and Mar. The fruit words for this date read "love at first sight and small luxury". Dec and Jan and Feb and Mar is its season. This day's birthday color: Oribucha (#464646). The color word here is "a pencil's shadow". One fruit, one color, one day.
Our birth flowers are an independently compiled system based on flowering seasons and hanakotoba. Birth stars are assigned by an astronomical rule — the IAU-named star culminating around midnight on that date. Birth fish and fruits are compiled independently by peak season (fish include seafood).
Anniversaries of this date
- International Museum DaySource
See each source for the origin and details of these anniversaries.
About this date's birth flower
- What is the birth flower for May 18?
- The birth flower for May 18 is the Lupine. Its hanakotoba include motherly love, always happy, and its peak season is May, Jun.
- What is the birth fish for May 18?
- The birth fish for May 18 is the Masu salmon (juvenile). Its fish words include stream, origin, and its peak season is May.
- What is the birth fruit for May 18?
- The birth fruit for May 18 is the Strawberry. Its fruit words include love at first sight, small luxury, and its peak season is Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar.
- What is the birthday color for May 18?
- The birthday color for May 18 is Oribucha (#464646). It pairs with the day's flower, Lupine.
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Color palette for Oribucha
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#747474
oklch(55.9% 0.000 89.9)
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
base
#181818
oklch(20.9% 0.000 89.9)
Analogous (±30°)
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
base
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
Complementary (+180°)
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
#464646
oklch(39.4% 0.000 89.9)
base
#868686
oklch(62.0% 0.000 89.9)
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