あを

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of あを – see the following entry.

【青あお】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, 青丹 (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] This term needs a translation to English. [noun] This term needs a translation to English. [prefix] unripe, young [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

(This term, あを (awo), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as あを, see Category:Japanese kanji read as あを.)