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
Kanji used
blue
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (130 in total)
to become pale; to turn pale
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
lush mountain; green mountain; grave; burial place
large green soybean; green peas
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
vein (esp. in head)
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
wind blowing through fresh verdure; mountain air
light blue; pale blue
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
Aomori (city, prefecture)
green youth; immature youth; novice; greenhorn
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
green paddy
unripe plum
medium-grade millstone
blue-green; turquoise; aqua; (arch.) spirogyra; (arch.) algae forming pond scum
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
cabbageworm (caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly)
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
green grass
having sex outdoors
blue sky; skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron
the blues; bluish colors
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
blue eyes; a Westerner
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
pale; pallid; bluish-white
green calabash; unripe gourd; scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green spring onion
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
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)
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
blueprint; cyanotype
brown (horse coat color)
verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush
green crop; green vegetable
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
greenish-black earth; green verditer; dark green tinged with yellow
bluish; greenish; immature; inexperienced; green
anxious or pained sigh
Litsea cubeba
blue tag; blue card; blue ticket; batons (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
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
blue-green; malachite green; color of green bamboo
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green spring onion
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
green youth; immature youth; novice; greenhorn
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)
blue eyes; a Westerner
green spring onion
powderized green laver; blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria; algal bloom; water bloom
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
blueprint; cyanotype
cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); cultivar of mulberry
Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis); Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
sleeping under the stars; having sex outdoors
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
lush waterside reeds
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
fruit harvested before it's ripened
maple tree not yet turned red; kasane color combination (green at front and russet behind)
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
blueprint
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
dark indigo tinged with brighter blue
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
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 common in Japan)
green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)
blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)
scoring combination consisting of the June, September, and October 5-point cards
bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
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 (24 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.