青あお
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. blue; azure
But is blue really such a cold color?
2. green
mostly in compound words and in ref. to fruits, plants and traffic lights
This light is taking forever to turn green, isn't it?
Noun
Abbreviation
3. green light (traffic)
And then, the traffic light turns green.
4. black (horse coat color)
5. blue 5-point card
Prefix
6. immature; unripe; young
Kanji used
blue
Pitch accent
あ
お
Top 2400
Used in vocabulary (161 in total)
to become pale; to turn pale
Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
lush mountain; green mountain; grave; burial place
large green soybean; green peas
vein (visible under the skin); bulging veins (esp. in the head)
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
light blue; pale blue
wind blowing through fresh verdure; mountain air
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
Aomori (city, prefecture)
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
green paddy
bluish green; turquoise; aqua
blue-green; turquoise; aqua; (arch.) spirogyra; (arch.) algae forming pond scum
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
unripe plum
medium-grade millstone
cabbageworm (caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly)
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
green grass
blue sky; skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit
having sex outdoors
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
the blues; bluish colors
blue eyes; a Westerner
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron
2 of batons (high-scoring card in mekuri karuta)
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
green spring onion
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green calabash; unripe gourd; pale and sickly person; pallid and thin person
pale; pallid; bluish-white
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)
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
vein (visible under the skin); bulging veins (esp. in the head)
blue letter; blue text
green chili pepper; unripe chili pepper
brown (horse coat color)
green crop; green vegetable
blueprint; cyanotype
vividly green; lush green; fresh and green; verdant; deep blue
bluish; greenish; immature; inexperienced; green
anxious or pained sigh
Ilex macropoda (species of holly)
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
Litsea cubeba
greenish-black earth; green verditer; dark green tinged with yellow
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
blue tag; blue card; blue ticket; batons (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
blue-green; malachite green; color of green bamboo
blue eyes; a Westerner
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
flesh of a blueback fish
green spring onion
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
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
"blue tide" phenomenon of an upwelling of oxygen-depleted water
emperor moth (Actias artemis); Japanese moon moth
lush waterside reeds
green flesh (melon, etc.); green meat (e.g. discolored tuna meat)
area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956)
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
green spring onion
powderized green laver; blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria; algal bloom; water bloom
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
blueprint; cyanotype
Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis); Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); cultivar of mulberry
vein (visible under the skin); bulging veins (esp. in the head)
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
sleeping under the stars; having sex outdoors
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
lush waterside reeds
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
Qinghai Normal University; QHNU
fruit harvested before it's ripened
Aoyama Gakuin University (abbr)
maple tree not yet turned red; kasane color combination (green at front and russet behind)
grayish blue; greyish blue; ash grey; merle
second-to-last train (of the day)
bright yellow-green tinged with grey
Prussian blue
salad of fish and vegetables, dressed with crushed mustard leaves and greens seasoned with sake lees, miso and vinegar
methylene blue
blue release liner
blueprint
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
dark indigo tinged with brighter blue
salad of fish and vegetables, dressed with crushed mustard leaves and greens seasoned with sake lees, miso and vinegar
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
queen coralbead (Cocculus orbiculatus)
green mandarin; mandarin variety that can be eaten while the skin is green
Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii); white-bellied stork
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)
Ilex macropoda (species of holly)
green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)
green tree cricket (Truljalia hibinonis)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)
blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)
blue-gray snapper (Aprion virescens); green jobfish
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
scoring combination consisting of the June, September, and October 5-point cards
yellow grouper (Epinephelus awoara); banded grouper
bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
aoganpi (Wikstroemia retusa); ganpi
Epipactis papillosa (species of orchid)
the people; the public; citizenry
young girl unused to the ways of the world; woman not serving in the imperial court
blue telephone; (blue) public telephone
shaved head; person with a shaved head
mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus)
Examples (32 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.