No comprendo…
“胡” is used to refer to foreign things in Chinese.
Yeah, like 胡臭. Bad pun alert!
Hahahaha!
You guys are so funny!!!
胡it’s not a meaning of a vegetable. Thats why 白蘿蔔 is a color come from a vegetable.
「古月」不就是月球在古代時候吗? Those were the days… 
Dude, we’re trying to clarify things here, m’kay?
红萝蔔 or 胡萝蔔？ In word of the relationship between the invention of the word
There was no word of orange in ancient times.
So red is the closest to orange in ancient times.
Only then can people call it. The more 
modern answer is orange radish.
I am seriously.
This is 红萝蔔.
Are you saying there were no 橘子 in ancient China?
You can say that again.
This is 白萝蔔.
橘子原名椪柑not 橘子。Ponkan、Chinese honey orange；學名：Citrus poonensis.
Ponkan, Ponkan, Ponkan.
I can say thrid time again.
A quote from the 晏子春秋, which was written during the Warring States period (i.e. ancient China):
晏子說：「橘生淮南則為橘，生於淮北則為枳，葉徒相似，其味不同，所以然者何？水土異也。」
So it looks like 橘子 did exist in ancient China.
Now, that’s interesting. This appears to be a quote about that from the Liberty Times:
I kept trying to figure out how they came to be called “beard radishes.” The Hu people idea makes lots more sense.
Yeah, like Tempo said, they slapped a 胡 onto things that came from outside of China. Kind of like the 番 in番茄 (barbarian eggplant).
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He is born after the word 橘 already used in a word. I believe when the 紅 word already used it that 橘word might not created.
The radish is not grow up in the tree, but that orange radish it is can be a modern simple color from a differentiate of vegetable.
I subscribe your message word by word. It makes a lot of sense to me.
This makes no sense. Carrots didn’t arrive in China until the Yuan Dynasty.
This makes no sense too.
So, which one it’s good for a carrot. 胡, 红, 橘？ Or others.
There has others that name in 番蘿蔔、丁香蘿蔔、胡蘆菔金、赤珊瑚、黃根、甘筍、金筍、紅菜頭.