藍あい

See also: 籃 and 蓝

藍あい U+85CD, 藍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85CD ← 藌 [U+85CC] CJK Unified Ideographs 藎 → [U+85CE]

藍 U+F923, 藍 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F923 ← 濫 [U+F922] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 襤 → [U+F924]

Translingual

Han character

藍あい (Kangxi radical 140, 艸そうこう+14 in Chinese and Korean, 艸そうこう+15 in Japanese, 18 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 17 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿にじゅう尸しかばね戈ほこ廿にじゅう (TSIT) or 廿にじゅう尸しかばね一いち廿にじゅう (TSMT), four-corner 4410₇, composition ⿱艹監かん)

Derived characters

• 灆 礷 㘕 𢹹 𣠩(𣞎) 𤓆 𤼓 𥍍 𧕭 𧟋 𧾲 𨰗 𩟺 𩽭 𪈭 𫲝 𭐌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1064, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32258
• Dae Jaweon: page 1528, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3311, character 8
• Unihan data for U+85CD

• Unihan data for U+F923

Chinese

trad.		藍あい
simp.		蓝
2nd round simp.		兰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (監かん) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
藍あい	*ɡ·raːm
襤	*ɡ·raːm
籃	*ɡ·raːm
懢	*ɡ·raːm, *ɡ·raːms
儖	*ɡ·raːm
蘫	*ɡ·raːm, *qʰlaːms
攬	*ɡ·raːmʔ
欖	*ɡ·raːmʔ
覽らん	*ɡ·raːmʔ
爁	*ɡ·raːmʔ, *ɡ·raːms, *ɡ·rams
擥	*ɡ·raːmʔ
灠	*ɡ·raːmʔ
濫	*ɡ·raːms, *ɡraːmʔ
嚂	*ɡ·raːms, *kʰlaːms, *qʰlaːmʔ
纜ともづな	*ɡ·raːms
監かん	*kraːm, *kraːms
礛	*kraːm
鑑かん	*kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms
艦かん	*ɡraːmʔ
檻おり	*ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms
壏	*ɡraːmʔ
轞	*ɡraːmʔ
鹽しお	*ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *ɡ·raːm) : semantic 艸そうこう (“grass”) + phonetic 監かん (OC *kraːm, *kraːms).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ram (“indigo”); cognate with Lepcha ᰛᰤᰨᰮ (ryom), Mru [script needed] (charam), Tibetan རམས (rams, “indigo”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019). However, Laufer (1916) considers the Tibetan word to be borrowed from Chinese.

Schuessler (2007) considers this an areal word, possibly from Southeast Asia; cf. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀum (“indigo plant and dye”) (> Malay tarum).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): lán (lan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): nan²

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): лан (lan, I)

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): laam⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lam³

• Gan (Wiktionary): lan⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): làm

  (Meixian, Guangdong): lam²

• Jin (Wiktionary): lan¹
• Northern Min (KCR): lâng
• Eastern Min (BUC): làng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): nâ / lâm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lam⁵ / nam⁵ / nang⁵ / na⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶le
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): lan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lán
    • Wade–Giles: lan²
    • Yale: lán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: nan²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nan²¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: лан (lan, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /læ̃²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: laam⁴
    • Yale: làahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːm²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lam³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lam²²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: lan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lan³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: làm
    • Hakka Romanization System: lamˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lam²
    • Sinological IPA: /lam¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: lam²
    • Sinological IPA: /lam¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: lan¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /læ̃¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: làng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃aŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nâ
    • Tâi-lô: nâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: naa
    • IPA (Singapore): /na²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /nã²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /nã¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nã²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâm
    • Tâi-lô: lâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laam
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei, Singapore): /lam²⁴/

Note:

• nâ - vernacular (incl. surname);
• lâm - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: lam⁵ / nam⁵ / nang⁵ / na⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâm / nâm / nâng / nâ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lam⁵⁵/, /nam⁵⁵/, /naŋ⁵⁵/, /na⁵⁵/

Note:

• lam5 - Chaozhou, Raoping;
• nam5 - Shantou, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Pontianak;
• nang5 - Chenghai;
• na5 - surname.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶le
    • MiniDict: le^去さ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³le
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /le²³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: lan²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃an¹³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 藍あい
Mandarin	Beijing	/lan³⁵/
	Harbin	/lan²⁴/
	Tianjin	/lan⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/lã⁴²/
	Qingdao	/lã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/lan⁴²/
	Xi'an	/lã²⁴/
	Xining	/lã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/lan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/lɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/lan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/nan²¹³/
	Chengdu	/nan³¹/
	Guiyang	/nan²¹/
	Kunming	/lã̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/laŋ²⁴/
	Hefei	/læ̃⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/læ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/lɑŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/læ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/le²³/
	Suzhou	/le̞¹³/
	Hangzhou	/lẽ̞²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/la³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/lɛ⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/lɔ⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/lan¹³/
	Xiangtan	/nan¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/lan⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/lam¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/lɑm¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/lam²¹/
	Nanning	/lam²¹/
	Hong Kong	/lam²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lam³⁵/ /na³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/laŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/laŋ³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/lam⁵⁵/ /nã⁵⁵/ 姓せい
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/lam³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lam

Rime
Character	藍あい
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	來き (37)
Final (韻いん)	談だん (143)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I
Fanqie	魯甘あま切きり
Baxter	lam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lam/
Li Rong	/lɑm/
Wang Li	/lɑm/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-k.]rˤam/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藍あい
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lán
Middle Chinese	‹ lam ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-k.]rˁam/
English	indigo
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藍あい
Reading #	1/1
No.	6082
Phonetic component	監かん
Rime group	談だん
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	藍あい
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːm/

Definitions

藍あい／蓝 (lán) (2)

藍あい

1. blue

   藍あい色いろ／蓝色いろ  ―  lánsè  ―  blue color

2. indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria)

   • 青あお，取と之これ於藍あい，而青あお於藍あい。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     青あお，取と之これ于蓝，而青あお于蓝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Xunzi, c. 3^rd century BCE

     Qīng, qǔ zhī yú lán, ér qīng yú lán. [Pinyin]

     Blue is obtained from the indigo plant but is bluer than the plant itself.

3. (politics) related to the pro-unification pan-Blue coalition of Taiwan
4. (HK politics) supportive of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Hong Kong government

   Antonym: 黃き／黄き (huáng)

5. (literary) Short for 伽藍がらん／伽とぎ蓝 (qiélán, “Buddhist temple”).

   名な藍あい／名な蓝  ―  mínglán  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. a surname: Lan

   藍あい玉たま／蓝玉たま  ―  Lán Yù  ―  Lan Yu (Ming dynasty general)

Synonyms

• (indigo plant): 蓼たで藍あい／蓼たで蓝 (liǎolán)

See also

• (supportive of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Hong Kong government) 藍あい絲いと／蓝丝 (lánsī)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (藍あい):

• → Japanese: 藍あい(らん) (ran)
• → Korean: 람(藍あい) (ram)
• → Vietnamese: lam (藍あい)

Others:

• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ŋglam ~ ŋgram (“indigo”)
  • White Hmong: nkaj
• → Proto-Tai: *g.raːmᴬ (“indigo”)
  • Thai: คราม (kraam)
  • Lao: ຄາມ (khām)
  • Zhuang: gyaemq (“purple-red”)
• → Proto-Tai: *kromꟲ (“indigo”)
  • Thai: ฮ่อม (hɔ̂ɔm)
  • Zhuang: romj, goromj
• →? Proto-Vietic: *ɟaːm (“indigo”)
  • Muong: chàm
  • Vietnamese: chàm
• → Khmer: ត្រុំ (trom)
• → Zhuang: lamz

Compounds

• 二に藍あい／二に蓝
• 亞あ甲きのえ藍あい／亚甲蓝 (yàjiǎlán)
• 亮あきら藍あい／亮あきら蓝
• 伽藍がらん／伽とぎ蓝 (qiélán)
• 伽藍がらん鳥とり／伽とぎ蓝鸟 (qiélánniǎo)
• 僧そう伽藍がらん／僧そう伽とぎ蓝
• 天てん藍色あいいろ／天てん蓝色 (tiānlánsè)
• 寶たから藍あい／宝たから蓝 (bǎolán)
• 寶たから藍色あいいろ／宝たから蓝色
• 小しょう藍あい人じん／小しょう蓝人 (xiǎolánrén)
• 景けい泰たい藍あい／景けい泰たい蓝 (jǐngtàilán)
• 普ひろし魯士藍あい／普ひろし鲁士蓝 (pǔlǔshìlán)
• 毛もう藍あい／毛もう蓝
• 水みず渰藍橋きょう／水みず渰蓝桥
• 海軍かいぐん藍あい／海うみ军蓝 (hǎijūnlán)
• 湛たたえ藍あい／湛たたえ蓝 (zhànlán)
• 燒しょう藍あい／烧蓝
• 甘藍かんらん／甘あま蓝 (gānlán)
• 發はつ藍あい／发蓝
• 碧あお藍あい／碧あお蓝 (bìlán)
• 碧あお藍あい如黛／碧あお蓝如黛まゆずみ
• 篳路藍あい縷／筚路蓝缕 (bìlùlánlǚ)
• 結球けっきゅう甘藍かんらん／结球甘あま蓝 (jiéqiú gānlán)
• 絞しぼ股また藍あい／绞股蓝 (jiǎogǔlán)
• 胡えびす藍あい之の獄ごく／胡えびす蓝之狱
• 芥あくた藍あい／芥あくた蓝
• 芥あくた藍あい菜さい／芥あくた蓝菜
• 蔚藍／蔚蓝 (wèilán)
• 蓼たで藍あい／蓼たで蓝 (liǎolán)
• 蓽路藍あい縷／荜路蓝缕 (bìlùlánlǚ)
• 蓽露藍あい蔞／荜露蓝蒌 (bìlùlánlǚ)
• 薄うすき藍あい／薄うす蓝
• 藍あい傘かさ／蓝伞
• 藍あい十じゅう字じ會かい／蓝十じゅう字じ会かい
• 藍あい單たん／蓝单
• 藍あい圖ず／蓝图 (lántú)
• 藍あい天たかし／蓝天 (lántiān)
• 藍あい姑しゅうと草そう／蓝姑草そう
• 藍あい寶石ほうせき／蓝宝石せき (lánbǎoshí)
• 藍あい尼に羅ら河かわ／蓝尼罗河 (Lánníluóhé)
• 藍あい德いさお公司こうし／蓝德公司こうし
• 藍あい晶あきら／蓝晶
• 藍あい晶あきら晶あきら／蓝晶晶あきら (lánjīngjīng)
• 藍あい普ひろし燈とう／蓝普灯とう
• 藍あい晶あきら石せき／蓝晶石せき
• 藍本らんぽん／蓝本 (lánběn)
• 藍あい橋きょう／蓝桥 (Lánqiáo)
• 藍あい橋きょう會かい／蓝桥会かい
• 藍あい波なみ／蓝波
• 藍あい波なみ主義しゅぎ／蓝波主ぬし义
• 藍あい湛じん湛じん／蓝湛湛じん (lánzhànzhàn)
• 藍あい玉たま／蓝玉
• 藍あい瑩瑩／蓝莹莹 (lányíngyíng)
• 藍田あいだ／蓝田 (Lántián)
• 藍田あいだ出いずる玉だま／蓝田出で玉だま
• 藍田あいだ猿さる人じん／蓝田猿ざる人じん
• 藍田あいだ玉たま／蓝田玉だま
• 藍田あいだ生玉いくたま／蓝田生玉いくたま (lántiánshēngyù)
• 藍田あいだ種たね玉だま／蓝田种玉
• 藍田あいだ遺のこ址し／蓝田遗址
• 藍あい皮かわ書しょ／蓝皮书
• 藍あい皮がわ綠みどり骨こつ／蓝皮绿骨 (lánpílǜgǔ)
• 藍あい盈みつる盈みつる／蓝盈盈みつる
• 藍あい礬／蓝矾
• 藍あい籌／蓝筹 (lánchóu)
• 藍あい籌股／蓝筹股また (lánchóugǔ)
• 藍あい綠藻りょくそう／蓝绿藻も (lánlǜzǎo)
• 藍あい縷／蓝缕 (lánlǚ)
• 藍あい翎／蓝翎
• 藍色あいいろ／蓝色 (lánsè)
• 藍あい菊きく／蓝菊 (lánjú)
• 藏ぞう藍あい／藏ぞう蓝
• 藍あい藻も／蓝藻 (lánzǎo)
• 藍あい蝴蝶こちょう／蓝蝴蝶こちょう
• 藍あい衫／蓝衫
• 藍あい調ちょう／蓝调 (lándiào)
• 藍あい閃閃／蓝闪闪
• 藍あい關せき／蓝关 (Lánguān)
• 藍あい青あお／蓝青 (lánqīng)
• 藍あい青あお官話かんわ／蓝青官かん话 (lánqīng guānhuà)
• 藍あい靛／蓝靛 (lándiàn)
• 藍あい領りょう／蓝领 (lánlǐng)
• 藍あい領りょう階級かいきゅう／蓝领阶级
• 藍あい鬍子／蓝胡子こ
• 藍あい鯨くじら／蓝鲸 (lánjīng)
• 藍あい黑くろ／蓝黑
• 藍あい點てん頦／蓝点颏
• 藍あい鼓こ藻も／蓝鼓藻も
• 衣冠いかん藍あい縷／衣冠いかん蓝缕
• 衣ころも衫藍褸／衣ころも衫蓝褛 (yīshānlánlǚ)
• 迦藍／迦蓝
• 鈷藍／钴蓝
• 青あお出いずる於藍／青あお出いずる于蓝 (qīngchūyúlán)
• 青あお過か於藍／青あお过于蓝
• 靛藍／靛蓝 (diànlán)

 

Japanese

Kanji

藍あい

(Jōyō kanji)

1. the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria
2. the color indigo
3. kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran, Jōyō)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: らん (ran, Jōyō)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kun: あい (ai, 藍あい, Jōyō)^{←あゐ (awi, あゐ, historical)}

Compounds

Compounds

• 藍あい(らん)衣ころも(い)社しゃ(しゃ) (Ran'isha)
• 藍あい玉たま(らんぎょく) (rangyoku): aquamarine (gem)
• 藍あい(らん)紫むらさき(し)色いろ(しょく) (ranshishoku)
• 藍綬らんじゅ(らんじゅ)褒章ほうしょう(ほうしょう) (Ranju Hōshō)
• 藍あい(らん)晶あきら石せき(しょうせき) (ranshōseki, “cyanite”)
• 藍あい(らん)色いろ(しょく) (ranshoku): the color indigo: dark blue
• 藍あい(らん)閃石(せんせき) (ransenseki)
• 藍あい藻も(ランソウ) (ransō)
• 藍あい(らん)鉄鉱てっこう(てっこう) (rantekkō)
• 藍田あいだ(らんでん) (Randen)
• 藍あい靛(らんてん) (ranten)
• 藍あい(らん)銅鉱どうこう(どうこう) (randōkō)
• 藍あい(らん)毘(び)尼あま(に)園えん(おん) (Ranbini-on)
• 藍碧らんぺき(らんぺき) (ranpeki)
• 芥あくた藍あい(カイラン) (kairan)
• 伽藍がらん(がらん) (garan)
• 甘藍かんらん(カンラン) (kanran)
• 洎夫(サフ)藍あい(ラン) (safuran)
• 芥あくた(ジエ)藍あい(ラン)菜さい(ツァイ) (jierantsai)
• 出藍しゅつらん(しゅつらん) (shutsuran)
• 青あお藍あい(せいらん) (seiran)
• 僧そう(そう)伽とぎ(が)藍あい(らん)摩ま(ま) (sōgaranma)
• 堆うずたか藍あい(たいらん) (tairan)
• 洞ほら庭にわ藍あい(トウテイラン) (tōteiran)
• 銅どう藍あい(どうらん) (dōran)
• 白はく藍あい(はくらん) (hakuran)
• 板いた藍あい根ね(バンランコン) (banrankon)
• 毘(び)藍あい(らん)婆ばば(ば) (Biranba)
• 洋よう藍あい(ようらん) (yōran)

Etymology

藍あい (ai): the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria.

藍あい (ai): the color indigo.

Kanji in this term
藍あい
あい Grade: S
kun'yomi

/awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *awoy.

There are various theories regarding the ultimate derivation, all suggesting a relation to 青あお (awo → ao, “blue”):

• May be an alteration from 青色あおいろ (awoiro → aoiro):

  ⟨awoiro₂⟩ → /awoirə/ → /awɨrə/ → /airo/ → /ai/

• May be a fusion of 青あお (awo → ao) and い (i, emphatic particle)

  */awo i/ → */awɨ/ → */awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/

• May be derived from a compound of 青あお (awo → ao) +‎ 居きょ (wi → i, “there is”), expressing the sense that the indigo plant contains the color blue:

  /awowi/ → */awːɨ/ → /awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あい [áꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠i]

Noun

藍あい(あい) or 藍あい(アイ) • (ai) ^{←あゐ (awi) or アヰ (awi)?}

1. the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria

   Synonyms: 藍あい蓼たで (aitade), 蓼たで藍あい (tade-ai)

   Hypernym: 蓼たで (tade)

2. the color indigo, from the dye processed from the stems and leaves of various indigo plants

   Synonyms: 藍色あいいろ (aiiro, ranshoku), インジゴ (injigo), インディゴ (indigo)

3. Short for 藍あい蝋ろう (airō): indigo pigment made from boiled-down indigo dye liquid

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as アイ.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 藍色あいいろ(あいいろ) (aiiro)
• 藍あい(あい)絵え(え) (ai-e)
• 藍あい返かえし(あいがえ)し (aigaeshi)
• 藍あい型がた(あいがた) (aigata)
• 藍あい紙し(あいがみ) (aigami)
• 藍あい瓶びん(あいがめ) (aigame), 藍あい甕う(あいがめ) (aigame)
• 藍あい革かわ(あいかわ) (aikawa)
• 藍あい隈くま(あいぐま) (aiguma)
• 藍あい(アイ)子こ(ゴ) (aigo)
• 藍あい鮫さめ(アイザメ) (aizame)
• 藍あい下か(あいした) (aishita)
• 藍あい汁じる(あいしる) (aishiru)
• 藍住あいずみ(あいずみ) (Aizumi)
• 藍あい墨すみ(あいずみ) (aizumi)
• 藍あい(あい)摺すり(ず)り (aizuri)
• 藍染あいぞめ(あいぞめ) (aizome), 藍あい(あい)染しみ(ぞ)め (aizome)
• 藍あい(あい)建けん(だ)て (aidate)
• 藍あい蓼たで(アイタデ) (aitade)
• 藍あい茸だけ(アイタケ) (aitake)
• 藍あい玉たま(あいだま) (aidama) an indigo ball
• 藍あい(あい)韋(なめし) (ai-nameshi)
• 藍あい(あい)鼠ねずみ(ねずみ) (ainezumi): bluish gray
• 藍あい花はな(あいばな) (aibana)
• 藍あい棒ぼう(あいぼう) (aibō)
• 藍あい(あい)微塵みじん(みじん) (ai-mijin)
• 藍あい(アイ)水みず(ミ)泥どろ(ドロ) (aimidoro)
• 藍あい(あい)海松みる(みる)茶ちゃ(ちゃ) (aimirucha)
• 藍あい(あい)屋や(や) (aiya)
• 藍あい焼しょう(あいやき) (aiyaki), 藍あい(あい)焼やき(や)き (aiyaki)
• 藍あい役やく(あいやく) (aiyaku)
• 藍あい蝋ろう(あいろう) (airō): indigo pigment made from boiled-down indigo dye liquid
• 紫陽花あじさい(あじさい) (ajisai)
• インド藍あい(あい) (Indo-ai)
• 薄うすき藍あい(うすあい) (usuai)
• 韓かん藍あい(からあい) (karaai)
• 木き(キ)藍あい(アイ) (kiai)
• 紅べに(くれない) (kurenai), 呉ご(くれ)の藍あい(あい) (Kure-no-ai)
• 濃こ(こ)藍あい(あい) (koai), 濃こ藍あい(こいあい) (koiai)
• 紺こん藍あい(こんあい) (kon-ai)
• 地ち入いれ(じい)れ藍あい(あい) (jiire ai)
• 白はく藍あい(しろあい) (shiroai)
• 人造じんぞう(じんぞう)藍あい(あい) (jinzō-ai)
• 蓼たで藍あい(タデアイ) (tadeai)
• 漬づけ藍あい(つけあい) (tsukeai)
• 天然てんねん(てんねん)藍あい(あい) (tennen-ai)
• 泥どろ藍あい(どろあい) (doroai)
• 二に藍あい(ふたあい) (futa-ai)
• ベロ藍あい(あい) (bero-ai)
• 襤褸らんる(ぼろ)藍あい(あい) (boro-ai)
• 本ほん藍あい(ほんあい) (hon-ai)
• 揉もめ(も)み藍あい(あい) (momiai)
• 山やま藍あい(やまあい) (yamaai), 山やま藍あい(やまい) (yamai)
• 琉球りゅうきゅう(リュウキュウ)藍あい(アイ) (Ryūkyū-ai)

Proverbs

• 青あお(あお)は藍あい(あい)より出で(い)でて藍あい(あい)より青あお(あお)し (ao wa ai yori idete ai yori aoshi)

Proper noun

藍あい(あい) • (Ai) ^{←あゐ (awi)?}

1. a female given name
2. a surname

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語こくご大だい辞典じてん（新装しんそう版ばん） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Further reading

• Entry at Nihonjiten (in Japanese)

Korean

Hanja

藍あい • (ram>nam) (hangeul 람>남, McCune–Reischauer ram>nam, Yale lam>nam)

Etymology 1

Hanja

藍あい (eumhun 쪽 람 (jjok ram))

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Etymology 2

Hanja

藍あい (eumhun 볼 감 (bol gam))

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Vietnamese

Han character

藍あい: Hán Nôm readings: lam, chàm, rôm, rườm, trôm, xám

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References

• Nôm Foundation