あお
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. blue; azure
2. green
mostly in compound words and in ref. to fruits, plants and traffic lights
Noun
Abbreviation
3. green light (traffic)
4. black (horse coat color)
5. blue 5-point card
Prefix
6. immature; unripe; young
Pitch accent
Top 21600
Used in vocabulary (113 in total)
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to become pale; to turn pale
verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush
Examples (24 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.
It's more purple than blue.
This is a green apple.
The color of her eyes is blue.
My favorite color is blue.
Which colour do you prefer, blue or green?
He painted the door blue.
Tom was wearing blue jeans.
He couldn't tell green from blue.
I prefer blue to red.
Can you tell green from blue?
The French flag is blue, white and red.
Red contrasts well with blue.
One of the men was wearing a blue sweatshirt.
He thinks that blue is the most beautiful color.
She had a blue dress on at the party yesterday.
My father has a blue and gray tie.
Please fill in the written form with a blue or a black ball point pen.
Did you know that if you mixed red and blue paint you obtained purple?
The light changed from red to green.
Traffic lights have three colours: red, amber and green.
I ate two green apples and a bowl of green grapes last night.