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In Chinese, the character for green, "绿" (lǜ), also means light blue. Apparently, this is a more linguistic coincidence (https://chinese.stackexchange.com/quest
by huac 9y ago
In Chinese, the character for green, "绿" (lǜ), also means light blue. Apparently, this is a more linguistic coincidence (https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6832/what-is-the-difference-between-%E7%BB%BF-and-%E9%9D%92 https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6832/what-is-the...).
- khedoros1 9y agoIn Japanese, "青" (ao) traditionally covered certain shades of both blue and green (blue sky, blue traffic lights, blue apples and many other plants). "緑" (midori) is more solidly green, coming from a root word used to describe flourishing trees. I think that it's still considered a shade of ao. They'll sometimes use a phonetic rendering of English "green", and I'm not really clear on the difference in meaning there.
- emodendroket 9y agoThere is a more or less predictable order in which words for colors will emerge in languages.