青空

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青空

1. (literary) blue sky, azure sky

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 voiced pronunciation has been relatively recent.

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

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

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