Blue Sun = 'Young' Sun?

POSTED BY: GaijinFlyer
UPDATED: Saturday, November 3, 2007 15:25
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"the collective American 'sheeple" ?


You better be smilin' when you say that.

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Originally posted by GaijinFlyer:
I lived in Japan for a few years (thanks, Navy) and remember that the character for blue was also used for new/young.

I was wondering if Chinese had the same connotation for the 'blue' character?

Might be interesting to think that the Blue Sun corporation was named to reflect the new Sun that people encountered after colonizing the new earths/moons.

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Qing is close to the English word Cyan.

I can think of one common expression where qing means young in Mandarin, and that's "qing shao nian" = teenager. Admittedly, this expression might come from Japanese.

The dictionary shows that the character meant youth in classical Chinese, but it's rarely used this way now (at least when people are talking). The words "nianqing" mean young, but the second character is usually written as the word for light (opposite of heavy) rather than the word for blue.

Qing also has the meaning of young and fresh, like fresh vegetation, perhaps similar to the way the English word green can be used to mean inexperienced.

And to the guy who mentioned it, "Kanji" is simply the Japanese pronunciation for "Hanzi" which means Chinese characters.

Steve

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