藍

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See also: 籃 and 蓝

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Translingual

Han character

藍 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14 in Chinese and Korean, 艸+15 in Japanese, 18 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 17 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿尸戈廿 (TSIT) or 廿尸一廿 (TSMT), four-corner 44107, composition ⿱艹監)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1064, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32258
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1528, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3311, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+85CD

Chinese

trad. 藍
simp. 蓝
alternative forms 兰 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (監) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藍 *ɡ·raːm
襤 *ɡ·raːm
籃 *ɡ·raːm
懢 *ɡ·raːm, *ɡ·raːms
儖 *ɡ·raːm
蘫 *ɡ·raːm, *qʰlaːms
攬 *ɡ·raːmʔ
欖 *ɡ·raːmʔ
覽 *ɡ·raːmʔ
爁 *ɡ·raːmʔ, *ɡ·raːms, *ɡ·rams
擥 *ɡ·raːmʔ
灠 *ɡ·raːmʔ
濫 *ɡ·raːms, *ɡraːmʔ
嚂 *ɡ·raːms, *kʰlaːms, *qʰlaːmʔ
纜 *ɡ·raːms
監 *kraːm, *kraːms
礛 *kraːm
鑑 *kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms
艦 *ɡraːmʔ
檻 *ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms
壏 *ɡraːmʔ
轞 *ɡraːmʔ
鹽 *ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·raːm) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 監 (OC *kraːm, *kraːms): The indigo plant

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ram (“indigo”). Cognate with Lepcha [script needed] (ryom), Mru charam, Tibetan རམས (rams, “indigo”), which Laufer (1916) considers to be a Chinese loan. 藍 (OC *ɡ·raːm) was also borrowed as Proto-Tai *g.raːmᴬ (STEDT) and possibly Nyah Kur [script needed] (khràam), Surin Khmer [script needed] (kraːm), and Proto-Vietic *ɟaːm (“indigo”) (→ Vietnamese chàm). Schuessler (2007) considers this an areal word, possibly from Southeast Asia; confer Proto-Austronesian *taRum (“indigo plant and dye”) (> Malay tarum) and Khmer ត្រុំ (trom).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藍

  1. blue
    藍色／蓝色  ―  lánsè  ―  blue color
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  3. (politics) related to the pro-unification pan-Blue coalition of Taiwan
  4. a surname Lan

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (藍):
  • → Japanese: 藍(らん) (ran)
  • → Korean: 남(藍) (nam)
  • → Vietnamese: lam (藍)

Others:

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    • Lao: ຄາມ (khām)
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  • → Khmer: ត្រុំ (trom)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

藍

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria
  2. the color indigo
  3. kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

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藍 (ai): the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria.
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藍 (ai): the color indigo.
Kanji in this term
藍
あい
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/

From Old Japanese.

There are various theories regarding the ultimate derivation, all suggesting a relation to 青 (awo → ao, “blue”):

  • May be an alteration from 青色 (awoiro → aoiro):
    ⟨awoiro2⟩ → /awoirə/ → /awɨrə/ → /airo/ → /ai/
  • May be a fusion of 青 (awo → ao) and い (i, emphatic nominative particle)[1]
    */awo i/ → */awɨ/ → */awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/
  • May be derived from a compound of 青 (awo → ao) +‎ 居 (wi → i, “there is”), expressing the sense that the indigo plant contains the color blue:
    /awowi/ → */awːɨ/ → /awi/ → */aji/ → /ai/

Given that many Old Japanese terms have been derived from adding an emphatic nominative particle い (i), and the spelling was historically awi, the second derivation seems likely.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria
    Synonyms: 藍蓼 (aitade), 蓼藍 (tade-ai)
    Hypernym: 蓼 (tade)
  2. the color indigo, from the dye processed from the stems and leaves of various indigo plants
    Synonyms: 藍色 (aiiro, ranshoku), インジゴ (injigo), インディゴ (indigo)
  3. Short for 藍蝋 (airō): indigo pigment made from boiled-down indigo dye liquid

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as アイ.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Proverbs

Proper noun

藍(あい) • (Ai) ←あゐ (awi)?

  1. a female given name
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References

  1. ^ Thomas Pellard (2013). Ryukyuan perspectives on the proto-Japonic vowel system. Frellesvig, Bjarke; Sells, Peter. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 20, CSLI Publications, pp.81–96, 2013.
  • Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Further reading

Korean

Hanja

藍 • (ram>nam) (hangeul 람>남, McCune–Reischauer ram>nam, Yale lam>nam)

Etymology 1

Hanja

藍 (eumhun 쪽 람 (jjok ram))

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Etymology 2

Hanja

藍 (eumhun 볼 감 (bol gam))

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 藍 (lam, chàm, rôm, rườm, trôm, xám)

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References

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