藍

藍 (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)

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

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

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 *graamᴬ (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).

藍

1. blue

   藍色 / 蓝色  ―  lánsè  ―  blue color

2. indigo plant; Indigofera tinctoria
3. (politics) related to the pro-unification pan-Blue coalition of Taiwan
4. A surname​. Lan

Others:

• → Proto-Tai: *gra:mᴬ (“indigo”)
  • Thai: คราม (kraam)
  • Lao: ຄາມ (khām)
  • Zhuang: gyaemq (“purple-red”)
• → Proto-Tai: *kromᶜ (“indigo”)
  • Thai: ฮ่อม (hɔ̂ɔm)
  • Zhuang: romj, goromj
• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ŋglam ~ ŋgram (“indigo”)
  • White Hmong: nkaj (“indigo”)
• → Khmer: ត្រុំ (trom)

(common “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

• Go-on: らん (ran, Jōyō)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: らん (ran, Jōyō)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kun: あい (ai, 藍, Jōyō)^{←あゐ (awi, historical)}

藍 (ai): the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria.

藍 (ai): the color indigo.

/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.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あ​い [áꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠i]

藍 (hiragana あい, katakana アイ, rōmaji ai, historical hiragana あゐ, historical katakana アヰ)

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

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

• 青 (あお)は藍 (あい)より出 (い)でて藍 (あい)より青 (あお)し (ao wa ai yori idete ai yori aoshi)

藍 (hiragana あい, rōmaji Ai, historical hiragana あゐ)

1. a female given name
2. a surname

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

• Entry at Nihonjiten (in Japanese)

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

藍 (eumhun 쪽 람 (jjok ram))

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藍 (eumhun 볼 감 (bol gam))

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藍 (lam, chàm, rôm, rườm, trôm, xám)

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