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/靑空)		青/靑	空
simp. (青空)		青	空

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīngkōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ ㄎㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīngkōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ ㄎㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cingkong
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing¹-kʻung¹
    • Yale: chīng-kūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingkong
    • Palladius: цинкун (cinkun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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Noun

青空

1. (literary) blue sky, azure sky

Synonyms

• 碧空 (bìkōng) (literary)
• 碧落 (bìluò) (literary, Taoism)
• 蒼天／苍天 (cāngtiān) (literary)
• 蒼旻／苍旻 (cāngmín) (literary)
• 蒼穹／苍穹 (cāngqióng) (literary)
• 藍天／蓝天 (lántiān)
• 青天 (qīngtiān)

 

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.

Compound of 青 (ao, “blue”) +‎ 空 (sora, “sky”). 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. The shift to voiced pronunciation has been relatively recent.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あおぞら [àózóꜜrà] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [a̠o̞zo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

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

1. the blue sky; the clear sky

   Synonyms: 青天 (seiten), 蒼穹 (sōkyū), 蒼空 (sōkū), 蒼天 (sōten), 蒼旻 (sōbin), 碧虚 (hekikyo), 碧空 (hekikū), 碧霄 (hekishō), 碧天 (hekiten), 碧落 (hekiraku)

   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

• 青(あお)空(ぞら)市(いち)場(ば) (aozora ichiba)
• 青(あお)空(ぞら)教(きょう)室(しつ) (aozora kyōshitsu)
• 青(あお)空(ぞら)駐(ちゅう)車(しゃ) (aozora chūsha)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.