青は藍より出でて藍より青し
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 青 | 藍 | 出 | 藍 | 青 |
| あお Grade: 1 |
あい Grade: S |
い Grade: 1 |
あい Grade: S |
あお Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | ||||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 靑は藍より出でて藍より靑し (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
From the 荀子 (Junji, “Xunzi”), a calque of Literary Chinese 青出於藍，而青於藍 (qīng chū yú lán, ér qīng yú lán, “blue comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than the plant itself”).
Proverb[edit]
青は藍より出でて藍より青し • (ao wa ai yori idete ai yori aoshi) ←あをはあゐよりいでてあゐよりあをし (awo fa awi yori idete awi yori awosi)?
See also[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 青 read as あお
- Japanese terms spelled with 藍 read as あい
- Japanese terms spelled with 出 read as い
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proverbs
- Japanese terms historically spelled with ゐ
- Japanese terms historically spelled with を
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with five Han script characters