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 (128 in total)
to become pale; to turn pale
Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
vividly green; lush green; fresh and green; verdant; deep blue
lush mountain; green mountain
bluish purple
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
flesh of a blueback fish
blue-green; turquoise; aqua; (arch.) spirogyra; (arch.) algae forming pond scum
medium-grade millstone
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
pale; pallid; bluish-white
blue eyes; a Westerner
grey appearance after shaving one's beard; five o'clock shadow; stubble; use of blue pigment to indicate a character has shaved
Aomori (city, prefecture)
cabbageworm (caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly)
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
brown (horse coat color)
green calabash; unripe gourd; pale and sickly person; pallid and thin person
green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
sleeping under the stars; having sex outdoors
powderized green laver; blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria; algal bloom; water bloom
greenish nasal mucus; green snot
greenish-black earth; green verditer; dark green tinged with yellow
inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
(horned) blue demon; blue ogre
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
bluish; greenish; immature; inexperienced; green
Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)
large green soybean; green peas
vein (visible under the skin); bulging veins (esp. in the head)
light blue; pale blue
wind blowing through fresh verdure
bluish stone; greenish stone; blue-tinged tuff
green paddy
bluish green; turquoise; aqua
unripe plum
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
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)
the blues; bluish colors
blue mold; blue mould; penicillium
green beefsteak plant; green perilla
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
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)
blue letter; blue text
green chili pepper; unripe chili pepper
Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)
green gold
blueprint; cyanotype
green crop; green vegetable
the blue sea
dropsical (blue-green) swelling
emperor moth (Actias artemis); Japanese moon moth
Ilex macropoda (species of holly)
2 of batons (high-scoring card in mekuri karuta)
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)
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
green yuzu; unripe yuzu
Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)
blue-green; malachite green; color of green bamboo
green tree cricket (Truljalia hibinonis)
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
"blue tide" phenomenon of an upwelling of oxygen-depleted water
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)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis); Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); cultivar of mulberry
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)
Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)
bluish russet
blueprint
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
queen coralbead (Cocculus orbiculatus)
Prussian blue
bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
soy flour made from parched green soybeans
blue-gray snapper (Aprion virescens); green jobfish
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 release liner
second-to-last train (of the day)
solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
yellow grouper (Epinephelus awoara); banded grouper
grayish blue; greyish blue; ash grey; merle
Qinghai Normal University; QHNU
Aoyama Gakuin University (abbr)
Osaka Aoyama University
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 (25 in total)
I like blue.
One is blue.
The light is green.