あお

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of あお – see the following entries.

【青】1 [noun] blue [noun] one of three primary colors [noun] a shade of blue to blue green [noun] (dated) green [noun] Short for 青信号 (aoshingō): green light (traffic light color, as the color of plants) [noun] the black, bluish color of a horse's hair; also, such a horse [noun] (card games) Short for 青短 (aotan): one of the three hanafuda cards bearing a blue 短冊 (tanzaku, “narrow card used for poetry”); a 役 (yaku) of the three aotan cards, worth 3 points [noun] (card games) a blue card in 天正カルタ (Tenshō karuta) [noun] Short for 青本 (aohon, “a blue-green covered book containing summaries of plays, histories, and legends”). [noun] Short for 青銭 (aosen, “a 4 mon coin in circulation from 1768”). [prefix] unripe, young [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

【襖】J [noun] (archaic) narrow-sleeved round-collared robe with unstitched sides, worn as formal and court dress by military officials in the Nara period [noun] (archaic) padded over-robe worn in the winter by men and women

(This term, あお (ao), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as あお, see Category:Japanese kanji read as あお.)