呉の藍
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 呉 | 藍 |
| くれ Grade: S |
あい Grade: S |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 吳の藍 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
From Old Japanese, first attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE); derivative term kurenai (see Derived terms) already attested earlier in the Kojiki (712 CE).
Compound of 呉 (Kure, “China”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 藍 (ai, “indigo → dye → any plant used as dye”).
Noun[edit]
呉の藍 • (Kure-no-ai) ←くれのあゐ (kurenoawi)?
- (archaic, possibly obsolete) the safflower plant, Carthamus tinctorius
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 呉 read as くれ
- Japanese terms spelled with 藍 read as あい
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese
- Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms historically spelled with ゐ
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese terms with archaic senses
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