青 — blue, green, youth

あおい青 blue

あおい

U+9752 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #589 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1534 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #174

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Meanings

blue
green
youth

Readings

On'yomi: せい sei しょう shou
Kun'yomi: あお ao

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あお ao Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

青(あお) い aoi blue 青(あお) ao blue 青(あお) 木(き) aoki evergreen tree 青(あお) 山(やま) aoyama Aoyama (place name) 青(あお) 森(もり) aomori Aomori 青(あお) 空(ぞら) aozora blue sky 青(あお) ざめる aozameru to become pale 青(あお) 白(じろ) い aojiroi pale

せい sei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

青(せい) 年(ねん) seinen youth 青(せい) 山(ざん) seizan lush mountain 青(せい) 少(しょう) 年(ねん) seishounen youth 青(せい) 春(しゅん) seishun youth 青(せい) 雲(うん) seiun blue sky 青(せい) 果(か) seika fruits and vegetables 青(せい) 年(ねん) 団(だん) seinendan young persons' association

Words by frequency and grade

20 words

Each dot is a word containing 青: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 11 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (6)

はれる晴 clear up きよい清 pure しずか静 quiet なさけない情 feeling せい精 refined こう請 request

Compound ideograph (会意). 龶 (sprouting plant, related to 生 life) above 月 (moon, here possibly a vat of dye). The color of fresh plant growth — blue-green. Also connotes youth. A prolific phonetic element in compounds like 清, 晴, 静, 情, 請.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#174 青 blue