Kanji藍
Readingあい
Frequency63%
Used in (49 in total)
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)
indigo blue; indigo
mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens); dusky rabbitfish; sandy spinefoot
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
deep indigo
indigo-tinged grey (gray)
ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
pale cyan; pale azure
anil indigo (Indigofera suffruticosa); Assam indigo (Strobilanthes cusia)
the student has become the master; (lit.) blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo
indigo dyer
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye)
pale cyan; pale azure
indigo-dyed paper; indigo paper; spiderwort-dyed paper
natural indigo; true indigo dye
deep purple; reddish indigo
earthenware pot for storing indigo dye
dark steel blue
indigo-dyed leather
Mercurialis leiocarpa (species of mercury whose leaves can be used to produce an indigo dye)
ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow); staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves
scum formed near the end of the indigo fermentation process; Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)
stencil dyeing produced with various shades of indigo
indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.
little spinefoot (Siganus spinus); black spinefoot; black trevally; blue-spotted trevally; spiny rabbitfish
lightly re-dyeing something with indigo
indigo-colored ceramics; indigo-patterned cloth
blue-green bacterium; cyanobacteria; cyanobacterium
Oscillatoria (cyanobacteria)
brown tinged with olive green and indigo
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)
stitching together armor with indigo-dyed leather; armor stitched together with indigo-dyed leather
indigo wax shaped as an inkstick
indigo blue make-up used in kabuki
indigo-dyed leather
Assam indigo (Strobilanthes cusia)
blotched foxface (Siganus unimaculatus)
Psilocybe subcaerulipes (species of psychoactive mushroom)
dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)
green-cracking russula (Russula virescens); quilted green russula; green brittlegill
any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye)