アオ
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 (106 in total)
lush mountain; green mountain
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
powderized green laver; blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria; algal bloom; water bloom
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
Aomori (city, prefecture)
sleeping under the stars; having sex outdoors
grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron
use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)
cabbageworm (caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly)
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
emperor moth (Actias artemis); Japanese moon moth
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush
Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)
large green soybean; green peas
Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
vein (esp. in head)
bluebird of happiness
unripe plum
medium-grade millstone
blue-green; turquoise; aqua; (arch.) spirogyra; (arch.) algae forming pond scum
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
Litsea cubeba
lush waterside reeds
blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)
Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)
green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
wind blowing through fresh verdure
light blue; pale blue
green youth; immature youth; novice; greenhorn
bluish purple
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
green paddy
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
greens
green grass
blue sky; skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
green calabash; unripe gourd; scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
blue eyes; a Westerner
the blues; bluish colors
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
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
snake (esp. Japanese rat snake)
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)
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
brown (horse coat color)
Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)
green gold
the blue sea
flesh of a blueback fish
blueprint; cyanotype
green crop; green vegetable
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
greenish-black earth; green verditer; dark green tinged with yellow
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
blue tag; blue card; blue ticket; batons (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)
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
cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); cultivar of mulberry
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)
anxious or pained sigh
Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)
Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis); Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
bluish russet
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
aoganpi (Wikstroemia retusa); ganpi
Epipactis papillosa (species of orchid)
Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii); white-bellied stork
blueprint
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
Prussian blue
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
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)
Examples (24 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.