The English language makes a distinction between blue and green but some languages do not. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ... See Green for the color. ...

Vietnamese

Vietnamese usually does not use separate words for green and refers to that colour using a word that can also refer to yellow or to blue. In Vietnamese, blue and green are denoted by xanh; blue is specifically described as "xanh like the sky" and green as "xanh like the leaves". Yellow is any color of light that stimulates both the red and green cone cells of the retina, but not the blue cone cells. ... Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ...

Japanese

The Japanese word ao (青 n., 青い aoi adj.) can refer to either blue or green depending on the situation. Modern Japanese also has a word for green (緑 midori), although this was not always so. Ancient Japanese did not have this distinction: the word midori only came into use in the Heian period, and at that time (and for a long time thereafter) midori was still considered a shade of ao. Educational materials distinguishing green and blue only came into use after World War II, during the Occupation: thus, even though most Japanese consider them to be green, the word ao is still used to describe certain vegetables, apples and vegetation. Ao is also the name for the color of a traffic light, "green" in English. However, most other objects—a green car, a green sweater, and so forth—will generally be called midori. Japanese people also sometimes use the English word "green" for colors. The language also has several other words meaning specific shades of green and blue. Ao is a Japanese word including what Westerners would call, separately, blue and green. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ... An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ... Midori (ç·‘) has several meanings: It is the Japanese word for the color green. It is also a common Japanese female personal name. ... The Heian period (Japanese: 平安時代, Heian-jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. ... This article is becoming very long. ... At the end of the Second World War, Japan was occupied by the Allied Powers. ... Vegetables in a Market Venn diagram representing the relationship between (botanical) fruits and vegetables. ... For other uses, see Apple (disambiguation). ... Chlorophyll is a green photosynthetic pigment found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ... A stoplight in Mexico City. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A jumper from Marks & Spencer A sweater, pullover, jumper or jersey is a relatively heavy garment intended to cover the torso and arms of the human body (though in some cases sweaters are made for dogs and occasionally other animals) and typically supposed to go over a shirt, blouse, t...

Welsh/Irish

Welsh has different boundaries than English regarding blue and green. The word glas is usually translated as "blue". It can also refer, variously, to the colour of the sea, of grass, or of silver. The word gwyrdd is the standard translation for "green". Glas (same spelling) is, comparably, the translation for "green" in Irish, with specific reference to plant hues of green; other shades would be referred to as uaine. In Irish, gorm is the word for "blue"—the first part (gor(m)) pronounced as in the Welsh gwyr(dd). Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...

Chinese

The modern Chinese language has the blue-green distinction; however, another word which predates the modern vernacular, qīng (青), is also used. It can refer to either blue or green, or even (though much less frequently) to black, as in xuánqīng (玄青). For example, the Flag of the Republic of China is today still referred to as qīng tiān, bái rì, mǎn dì hóng ("Blue Sky, White Sun, Whole Field Red"); whereas qīng cài is the Chinese word for "green vegetable". Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... National flag. ...

Kurdish

In Kurdish the word "şîn" (pronounced sheen), meaning "blue", is used for green things in nature like leaves, grass, and eyes. However, there is another word, "kesk", which is used for other green things, for instance in the Kurdish flag. The Kazak language, like many Turkic languages, makes the same distinction, with kök as the word for the color of the sky, the sea, and green plants, but jasâl as the color for man-made green things. Kurdish (Kurdî) is an Indo-Iranian language spoken in the region loosely called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ... The official flag of Iraqi Kurdistan The Kurdish flag (also flag of Kurdistan, Kurdish: Alay Kurdistan, ) first appeared during the Kurdish struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. ... Categories: Language stubs | Turkic languages | Languages of Asia | Languages of China | Languages of Kazakhstan ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ...

Pashto

Pashto uses the same word, "sheen", as in Kurdish to denote blue as well as green. "Shinkay", a word derived from "sheen", means greenery but "sheen asman" means blue sky. When there is ambiguity, one is prone to ask, "'sheen' like the sky?" or "'sheen' like plants?" Pashto (//; پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pathan, Pakhto, Pushto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, Pushtu, Pushtoo, Pashto پشتو and Pukhto پختو ) is the language spoken by the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan, western Pakistan, and northern India. ...

Zulu

Zulu uses the word "-luhlaza" (the prefix changes according the the class of the noun) for "blue/green". Zulu (isiZulu in Zulu), is a language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. ...

Maya

This is also found in Mayan languages; for example in the Yukatek Maya language "blue/green" is "yax". Mayan languages constitute a language family of related languages which are spoken in Mesoamerica, from southeastern Mexico to northern Central America, and as far south as Honduras. ...

See also

• Semantic field for the concept of the range of words
• Blue
• Green
• List of colors
• Traditional Colors of Japan

The semantic field of a word is the sum of the sememes expressed by it. ... Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ... See Green for the color. ... The following is a partial list of colors with associated articles. ...

References

• Green... midori? ao? – Yomiuri Shimbun's "Pera Pera Penguin" column, vol. 32