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
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Used in vocabulary (113 in total)
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to become pale; to turn pale
verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
lush mountain; green mountain
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
bluish purple
flesh of a blueback fish
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
medium-grade millstone
blue-green; turquoise; aqua; (arch.) spirogyra; (arch.) algae forming pond scum
vein (esp. in head)
use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)
blue eyes; a Westerner
grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
brown (horse coat color)
wind blowing through fresh verdure
Aomori (city, prefecture)
green youth; immature youth; novice; greenhorn
cabbageworm (caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly)
blue sky; skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit
green calabash; unripe gourd; scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
powderized green laver; blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria; algal bloom; water bloom
green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
the blue sea
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
sleeping under the stars; having sex outdoors
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
greenish-black earth; green verditer; dark green tinged with yellow
unripe plum
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
blue line; area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956); non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)
bluish; greenish; immature; inexperienced; green
cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); cultivar of mulberry
Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)
large green soybean; green peas
light blue; pale blue
green paddy
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
greens
green grass
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
the blues; bluish colors
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
green spring onion
green spring onion
snake (esp. Japanese rat snake)
Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)
green gold
blueprint; cyanotype
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
green crop; green vegetable
Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)
emperor moth (Actias artemis); Japanese moon moth
Litsea cubeba
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
blue tag; blue card; blue ticket; batons (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)
green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)
blue-green; malachite green; color of green bamboo
blue traffic violation ticket (designating a minor violation); second-class ticket
blue registration plate with white characters (used for diplomatic vehicles); diplomatic vehicle registration plate
lush waterside reeds
area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956)
green flesh (melon, etc.); green meat (e.g. discolored tuna meat)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
anxious or pained sigh
blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis); Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)
Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)
bluish russet
blueprint
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
Prussian blue
bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
fruit harvested before it's ripened
dark indigo tinged with brighter blue
bright yellow-green tinged with grey
maple tree not yet turned red; kasane color combination (green at front and russet behind)
green mandarin; mandarin variety that can be eaten while the skin is green
salad of fish and vegetables, dressed with crushed mustard leaves and greens seasoned with sake lees, miso and vinegar
aoganpi (Wikstroemia retusa); ganpi
Epipactis papillosa (species of orchid)
Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii); white-bellied stork
methylene blue
scoring combination consisting of the June, September, and October 5-point cards
blue telephone; (blue) public telephone
young girl unused to the ways of the world; woman not serving in the imperial court
shaved head; person with a shaved head
the people; the public; citizenry
mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus)
Aomi Station
Examples (24 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.