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IIRC, 青 in Japanese also can refer to either blue or green, though they also have a dedicated word for green (緑) and that is the one that usually gets used... t

IIRC, 青 in Japanese also can refer to either blue or green, though they also have a dedicated word for green (緑) and that is the one that usually gets used... this can catch people unawares when translating though.

Hamuko 5y ago
Japanese traffic lights also have the colors red (赤), yellow (黄) and "blue" (青), where the last one is really somewhere between blue and green.
- andrewzah 5y ago
  It's interesting that 푸르다 (blue/green) uses a very similar character: 靑, with 青 listed as a variant. Red is the same, 赤 (붉을 적) and yellow (누를 황 / 황색) uses 黃/黄. Green (녹색) uses 綠. There's also 초록 which is 草綠. 赤: https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/ad2ad1893b5c49f8ab4a2b848a3b8a1d https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/ad2ad1893b5c49f8ab... 黃: https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/17a2b69699474d5bb899b8443f74922a https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/17a2b69699474d5bb8...
- NikolaeVarius 5y ago
  Hangul also has the trait that green traffic lights are considered "blue". Really made my head spin as a kid.