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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.
by 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 agoIt'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 agoHangul also has the trait that green traffic lights are considered "blue". Really made my head spin as a kid.