あお

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of あお – see the following entries.
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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, 青丹 (aotan): one of the three hanafuda cards bearing a blue 短冊 (tanzaku, narrow card used for poetry); a (yaku) of the three aotan cards, worth 3 points
(card games) a blue card in 天正カルタ (Tenshō karuta)
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unripe, young
a female given name
a surname
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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
(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.)