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青 kanji
blue, green
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
あおあお-あおい
Words with 青
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —青藍indigo blue
- —青華ceramics with a blue pattern on a white background
- —青龍blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
- —青鞜bluestocking
- —青苔green moss
- —青黛blue eyebrow pencil; blue eyebrows; deep blue; dark blue
- —踏青outing in spring
- —憤青fenqing; leftist Chinese youth (usu. nationalistic)
- —青鸞argus pheasant (Argusianus argus)
- —汗青(written) history
- —回青Mohammedan blue (pigment used in porcelain painting)
- —箚青tattoo; tattooing
- —青漢wide open sky; the blue; heavens; firmament
- —刺青tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
- —青島Qingdao (China); Tsingtao; Chingtao
- —青女goddess of frost and snow; frost and snow
- —藍青indigo blue
- —民青Democratic Youth League of Japan (abbr); DYLJ
- —燕青拳Yangqingquan; Yangqing Fist
- —灰青色grayish blue; greyish blue