Ao is a Japanese word including what Westerners would call, separately, blue and green. For example, in Japan, green traffic lights are described as ao shingo, and blue skies are described as ao zora, as in aozora bunko. Ao also appears in the name of Aomori Prefecture. For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation) Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420–490 nanometers) of the three additive primary colors. ... Look up green in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Aozora Bunko (青空文庫, the Blue Sky Collection) in Japan is a project similar to Project Gutenberg. ... At Osorezan Aomori Prefecture (青森県 Aomoriken or frequently Aomori-ken) is located in the Tohoku region of Japan. ...

In writing, ao appears in Japanese as あお in hiragana and 青 in kanji. As an adjective, it becomes aoi (青い, aoi^?) Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Hiragana ) are a Japanese syllabary, one of the three main Japanese writing systems, along with katakana and kanji. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Kanji ( â–¶(?), literally Han characters) is the name of Chinese characters in the Japanese language. ... There are three types of adjective: keiyōshi, or i adjectives, which have a conjugating ending i which can become, for example, past, or negative. ...

The color ao can also indicate youth, as in the song aoi kajitsu (a song about a young girl) by singer Momoe Yamaguchi, a meaning that stems from the on'yomi (Chinese-based reading) sei of the kanji for ao. Yamaguchi's biography about her youth was called aoi toki (my young days). Fresh fruit in Japan is sometimes written seika (青果, seika^?). Yamaguchi Momoe Momoe Yamaguchi (山口百恵 Yamaguchi Momoe) is a Japanese pop singer, actress and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980. ... The characters for Kanji, lit. ...

Japanese also has a separate native word for green, midori.

Other meanings

The word Aoi can also mean a hollyhock. In writing, this form of "aoi" appears in Japanese as hiragana あおい , or あふひ in historical kana usage, and kanji 葵. Hollyhock Categories: Stub | Flowers ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Hiragana ) are a Japanese syllabary, one of the three main Japanese writing systems, along with katakana and kanji. ... Kana is a general term for two types of syllabic Japanese script: hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ). ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Kanji ( â–¶(?), literally Han characters) is the name of Chinese characters in the Japanese language. ...

See also

• Aoi no Ue