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For pronunciation and definitions of あを – see the following entry.

【青あお】1

[noun] blue

[noun] one of three primary colors

[noun] a shade of blue to blue green

[noun] (dated) green

[noun] Short for 青信号 (aoshingō): green light (traffic light color, as the color of plants)

[noun] the black, bluish color of a horse's hair; also, such a horse

[noun] (card games) Short for 青短 (aotan): one of the three hanafuda cards bearing a blue 短冊 (tanzaku, “narrow card used for poetry”); a 役 (yaku) of the three aotan cards, worth 3 points

[noun] (card games) a blue card in 天正カルタ (Tenshō karuta)

[noun] Short for 青本 (aohon, “a blue-green covered book containing summaries of plays, histories, and legends”).

[noun] Short for 青銭 (aosen, “a 4 mon coin in circulation from 1768”).

[prefix] unripe, young

[proper noun] a female given name

[proper noun] a surname

(This term, あを (awo), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as あを, see Category:Japanese kanji read as あを.)