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)
① 衝撃・恐怖などで顔の色が青白くなる。
① ガリア科(旧ミズキ科、アオキ科)の樹木、Aucuba japonica の標準和名。② 〔方言〕特定のモチノキ科モチノキ属(Ilex)の木本。③ 〔方言〕特定のムクロジ科(旧カエデ科)カエデ属(Acer)の木本。④ 〔方言〕特定のクスノキ科の木本。⑤ 〔方言〕特定のヒノキ科の木本。⑥ 〔佐久方言、静岡方言、伊予松山方言〕マサキ(Euonymus japonicus)。⑦ 〔岩手県岩手方言、気仙方言、香川方言〕ハナイカダ(Helwingia japonica)。
① 青々と樹木が茂った山。
large green soybean; green peas
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
① 青い色の筋。② 皮膚を透かして、青く見える静脈。
① 青草のようなにおいがするさま。② 考え方や態度などに未熟さが感じられるさま。
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)
① 若くて未熟であること。
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
green paddy
① 梅の未熟な果実。梅の、まだ成熟していない(まだ青い)果実。梅の青い(緑色の)果実。
medium-grade millstone
① 緑と青の中間色。
① 行くことが安全であることを知らせる青色または緑色の灯火信号。古くは「緑信号」とも呼ばれた。② 計画などをそのまま進行させてもよいというしるし。
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
① 蝶、蛾の幼虫で長毛がなく体が緑色のものの総称。② あおごかいの別称。
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
① 緑色の葉菜類の総称。
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
① 緑色の野菜。野菜全般を指す場合もある。② 背が青い魚。
① 青草のようなにおいがするさま。② 考え方や態度などに未熟さが感じられるさま。
use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)
① 「青大将」のひらがな表記。
① コウノトリ目サギ科アオサギ属に属する鳥の一種。学名: Ardea cinerea。② 馬の毛色の名。薄青色の毛。
the blues; bluish colors
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
blue eyes; a Westerner
① アオサ科アオノリ属の緑藻植物の総称。
① 青みのある白。② 血色が悪く、具合の悪そうなさま。
green calabash; unripe gourd; scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
① 不完全菌類モニリア目アオカビ属のカビの総称。
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)
① 青くて広い海。
① いかにも青いさま。
green crop; green vegetable
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
① 黄色みがかった濃い青色。② 青黒い土。③ 緑色と朱色
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
① 不完全菌類モニリア目アオカビ属のカビの総称。
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
① 不完全菌類モニリア目アオカビ属のカビの総称。
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
① 若くて未熟であること。
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
① アオサ科アオノリ属の緑藻植物の総称。
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.