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		saagarjha on Nov 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that... Curious how this works in the modern world, where color is mostly globalized? If I ask for “blue” and I only want that what does it get translated to?

thaumasiotes on Nov 5, 2023 [–]

It gets translated to ao. Here's the Japanese wikipedia page ( https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92 ) which among other things notes that the word corresponds to "英語のblue".

But ao remains the word that refers to the color of plants. https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92

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