青

Colloquial

bruise

Hanafuda

5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card

Hanafuda

scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku

officially sanctioned brothel (Edo-period)

grey heron (Ardea cinerea); gray heron

Japanese sacred lily (Rohdea japonica); Nippon lily; lily of China

Prussian blue; deep blue; dark blue; ultramarine

Astronomy

Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star

dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured)

white horse

green beefsteak plant; green perilla

blue line

Historical term; Abbreviation

area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956)

non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)

bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis; esp. cultivars with green stalks); pak choi

Lazurite

Poetical term

the blue sea

dark blue; deep blue; navy blue

green gold

grey tinged with green; grey tinged with blue

green pine

たんせい only

red and blue

たんせい only

paints; colors

painting; picture

brown (horse coat color)

green crop; green vegetable

seigaiha; wave pattern

greenish-black earth

green verditer

dark green tinged with yellow

Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)

celestite; celestine