青空

See also: 靑空

Chinese
green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
 
emptied; leisure; air
emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (青空) 青 空
simp. #(青空) 青 空

Pronunciation

Noun

青空

  1. (literary) blue sky, azure sky

Synonyms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
青 空
あお
Grade: 1		 そら > ぞら
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
靑空 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

First cited to the early 1700s.[1]

Compound of 青 (ao, “blue”) +‎ 空 (sora, “sky”).[1][2] The sora reading for 空 changes to zora as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The reading was aosora until roughly the mid-Meiji Period.[1] The shift to rendaku pronunciation has been relatively recent.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) あおぞ​ら [àózóꜜrà] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [a̠o̞zo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

青(あお)空(ぞら) • (aozora) ←あをぞら (awozora)?

  1. the blue sky; the clear sky
    Synonyms: 碧空 (hekikū), 碧天 (hekiten)
    青空(あおぞら)を見上(みあ)げて故郷(ふるさと)を思(おも)う
    aozora o miagete furusato o omou
    to look up at the blue sky and think of one's hometown
  2. (only attributively) the state of being outdoors, in the open, open-air
    Synonyms: 屋外 (okugai), 露天 (roten)
    青空(あおぞら)市場(いちば)
    aozora ichiba
    an open-air market

Derived terms
Derived terms

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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