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- What is the difference between 绿 and 青?
Therefore 青 has to take over the responsibility to cover all greenish blueish items Especially, in 五行, 青 is related to 木 (woods trees herbs, one of the five 五行), so later on people started to use 青 for green color Last but not least: what is the color 青 in 青天? is it sky blue? Answer: no
- How is 青 and 苍 used in classical Chinese to denote colors?
This is completely my personal interpretation, but instead of concrete color (s), I always see 青 and 苍 as the blueish 'tone' that you can sense in many colors from aquamarine green to dark metal gray Also my personal belief (without any proof) is that 青草 actually refers to the cyan grass as opposed to the yellow-green ones, and 青衣 is dark blue-black instead of pure black
- classical chinese - Difference of 青 and 黑 - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
My dictionary tells 青 can mean black My questions are: Is 青 generally used to mean black? In other words, is it always ambiguous to some extent whether it means blue or black? When it means blac
- Idiom chengyu meaning: 小葱拌豆腐一清二白 - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
I recently came across 小葱拌豆腐一清二白 as a dictionary submission, but the explanation of the submitter was unclear I have had mixed little luck searching for the expression (or parts of it), and I also
- Bottom component of 青 and 䏍 - chinese. stackexchange. com
Is it indeed the case that the lower component of 䏍 is different from the lower component of 青? If so, what is the visual cue to look for to tell the difference between these two components?
- etymology - Origin of double phonetic component 静 - Chinese Language . . .
The 青 component in 靜 represents 丹青 -- (青 is color of the East; 丹 is color of the south 丹 + 青 = clearly defined) 靜 has the extended meaning of 審 (to define; make clear) and 爭 is the phonetic component "No Chaos" also called "靜" -- when chaos is sorted out, we get tranquilness - [青 (clear)爭 (chaos)]
- If 蓝天 means blue sky, does 青天 mean cyan sky?
Peole use both 蓝天 and 青天 and I am wondering if there is any difference While 蓝 means blue, 青 means cyan, right? Why do people say 蓝天白云 often but seldom 青天白云 (though 青天白日 is sometimes used)?
- translation - What is 德国青? 德国青? - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
In the classic Xiangsheng 《賣布頭》, they mention various ways the street peddlers sing (吆喝) about their wares, among them the textiles merchants sell a kind of black fabric called "德国青" Here is the
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