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Kanji Detail for 碧 - "blue-green, jade color, azure"

碧

  • Meaning

    碧 means "blue-green, jade color, azure."

    1. Blue-green - A deep azure-green color.

    2. Jade color - The color of green jade.

    3. Azure - Clear blue like the sky.

  • Four-character idioms with 碧

    • 桑田碧海 そうでんへきかい Listen the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
    • 碧眼紅毛 へきがんこうもう Listen blue eyes and red hair; Westerner
    • 紅毛碧眼 こうもうへきがん Listen red-haired and blue-eyed (person); a Westerner

  • Origin of 碧

    玉 (王), jade, and 石, stone, for the sense, with 白 above lending the reading heki: the blue-green gem-stone — the colour of gem-clear water.

    How to remember it: Jade 玉 and stone 石 together — the blue-green of a clear lagoon.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: blue-green, jade color, azure
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あい, あお, あおい, きよし)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 碧

    Given names 碧(あい)Listen 碧(あお)Listen 碧(あおい)Listen 碧(きよし)Listen 碧(さんご)Listen 碧(みどり)Listen

    Surnames 碧(ふくきた)Listen 碧(ふくぎた)Listen 碧(ふくみつ)Listen 碧(ふくもと)Listen 碧(へき)Listen 碧(みねもと)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    blue; green

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    jade; green, blue

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    green jade; bluish green; blue; jade

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    jade; green, blue

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    碧玉 (jasper). Its quality is hard and dense. Contains iron rust. Hence has yellow, brown, green and other colors. Used for ornaments. | All colors that are bluish-green are also called 碧. Such as saying spring grass is 碧色 (green).

  • Onyomi

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    heki(ヘキ) ヘキ

    hyaku(ヒャク) ヒャク

  • Kunyomi

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    none

  • Strokes

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    14 strokes

  • Radical

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    石 (ishi・ishihen)

  • Related Keywords

    blue-green jade color azure aqua beryl bright celadon clear cobalt cyan emerald gem indigo malachite mint peacock precious sapphire seafoam sky teal turquoise

Sentences including 碧

  • The night sky was dark blue, and the stars were twinkling.

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