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Japanese
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| 【青】1
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- blue
- one of three primary colors
- a shade of blue to blue green
- (dated) green
- short for 青信号 (aoshingō): green light (traffic light color, as the color of plants)
- the black, bluish color of a horse's hair; also, such a horse
- (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
- (card games) a blue card in 天正カルタ (Tenshō karuta)
- short for 青本 (aohon, “a blue-green covered book containing summaries of plays, histories, and legends”)
- short for 青銭 (aosen, “a 4 mon coin in circulation from 1768”)
- unripe, young
- a female given name
- a surname
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| 【襖】J
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- (archaic) narrow-sleeved round-collared robe with unstitched sides, worn as formal and court dress by military officials in the Nara period
- (archaic) padded over-robe worn in the winter by men and women
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(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.)
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