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Kanji Detail for 青 - "blue, green, young"

青

  • Meaning

    青 means "blue, green, young."

    1. Blue - The color blue; azure.

    2. Green - The verdant appearance of plant leaves.

    3. Young - Youthful; vigorous.

    4. Immature - Not yet fully developed.

    5. Blue-coated horse - A horse with a blue-gray coat.

  • Words using 青

    • 青年 せいねん Listen youth; young man
    • 青山 せいざん Listen lush mountain; green mountain; grave
    • 青木 あおき Listen Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
    • 青春 せいしゅん Listen youth; adolescence; springtime of life
    • 青少年 せいしょうねん Listen young people; youth; the younger generation
    • 青空 あおぞら Listen blue sky
    • 青葉 あおば Listen fresh leaves
    • 青写真 あおじゃしん Listen blueprint; cyanotype; blueprint (for the future)

  • Four-character idioms with 青

    • 青息吐息 あおいきといき Listen deep distress
    • 白砂青松 はくしゃせいしょう Listen white sands and green pines; beautiful coastal scenery
    • 青天白日 せいてんはくじつ Listen clear weather; being cleared of the charge (brought against one); having one's innocence proved

  • Origin of 青

    生, the growing plant, over a well of mineral pigment (丹): the colour of living growth, ground from the earth. It covered blue and green alike — Japan's famously undivided ao.

    How to remember it: A green shoot 生 over the dye-well — the one colour of everything alive: ao, blue-green.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 青

    • Verified meaning: blue, green, young
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あえやぎ, あお, あおい, あおぎ)

    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 青

    Given names 青(あお)Listen 青(あおい)Listen 青(しょう)Listen 青(じょう)Listen 青(せい)Listen

    Surnames 青(あえやぎ)Listen 青(あおぎ)Listen 青(あおさき)Listen 青(あおざき)Listen 青(あおみね)Listen 青(あおやぎ)Listen 青(あおやなぎ)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

    blue, green; young; Kangxi radical 174

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    nature's color; blue, green, black; young

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

    One of the five colors. Like that dyed with indigo. Combined with red, it becomes purple. Combined with yellow, it becomes green. | The ancients considered blue-green the color of the east. Therefore the Crown Prince who resided in the Eastern Palace was also said to be in the 青宮. | The ancients wrote characters on bamboo slips, calling it 殺青 (killing the green). Or they would lightly heat it with fire to let the bamboo sap ooze out, making it easier to carve with a knife, calling it 汗青 (sweating the green). Green refers to the color of bamboo skin. Ancient historians used this for recording, hence history is also called 青史 (green history). | 青年. Refers to the years of youth. Also called 青春. | 青眼. Refers to viewing someone with importance. Ruan Ji of Jin could make his eyes appear blue or white. In correspondence, terms like 垂青 (favoring with blue eyes) and 青覽 (viewed with blue eyes) both originate from this meaning. | One of the Nine Provinces in the ancient Tribute of Yu. Today's Shandong and areas in Liaodong are such places.

  • Onyomi

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    sei(セイ) セイ

    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ao(あお) あお

    aoi(あおい) あおい

  • Strokes

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    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    青 靑 (ao)

  • Related Keywords

    blue green young fresh immature vibrant adolescent aquamarine bamboo color grass inexperienced jade juvenile lawn leaf meadow naive nature ocean raw sky

Sentences including 青

  • The french flag is blue , white and red.

  • His face turned pale on hearing the news.

  • This blue sweater is very pretty.

  • She was wearing a blue coat.

  • I like this blue dress.

  • Do you know the reason why the sky looks blue?

  • Her blue shoes go well with that dress.

  • She had a blue dress on at the party yesterday.

  • Please look at the girl who wore the blue clothes.

  • Yesterday mary gave me a book the cover of which was blue.

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