Blue

N5 · 8 stroke · 24 kanji

A plant growing above the moon — the blue-green of fresh growth at night, young and alive.

Young plants in moonlight have an almost blue-green glow. The top strokes are the sprouting leaves; below is the moon (月). 青 captures that color exactly — the fresh, living blue-green of new growth under night sky. In Japanese, 青 covers both blue and green, especially the living kind.

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Kanji using this radical
2 kanji
Blue / Green / Young
あお · せい
Clear / Pure / Clean
きよ・い · せい

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