Green Is Blue: Difference between revisions

[[File:fox_blue_green_eyes_1128.jpg|link=Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|frame|[[Star Fox (Video Game)|Fox McCloud]]'s [[Art Shift|eyes]] are [[Technicolor Eyes|magical]], and not because they're [[What Beautiful Eyes!|so pretty]].<ref>This is a slightly [[Off-Model]] promotional artwork where Fox's normally green eyes are inconsistently both green and blue.</ref>]]

In English, there are eleven [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term:Color term#Basic_color_termsBasic color terms|basic color terms]] -- [[Tropes in Black|black]], [[Blue Tropes|blue]], [[This Index Is Brown|brown]], [[Gray Tropes|gray]], [[Green Tropes|green]], [[An Index Orange|orange]], [[Pink Is for Tropes|pink]], [[Purple Is the New Trope|purple]], [[Paint the Index Red|red]], [[Tropes in White|white]] and [[The Yellow Index|yellow]]. These colors are fairly consistent, each with culturally canonical hues, by which similar hues are usually associated -- for instance, scarlet is considered a type of {{color|red|red}}, gold is considered a type of {{color|yellow|yellow}}, etc.

In the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosphere |Sinosphere]] -- the regions that either speak one of the Chinese languages (such as China, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.), or have languages that incorporate massive amounts of Chinese-derived extended vocabulary and have historically made widespread use of Chinese written characters (such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam), these regions traditionally have [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_in_language:Distinguishing blue from green in language|the same word for both blue and green]], indicated with the Chinese character 靑 (or its alternate glyph 青).<ref>This character is read as reconstructed Middle Chinese ''tsheng'', Mandarin ''qīng'', Vietnamese ''thanh'' (poetic) or ''xanh'' (daily usage), Korean 청 ''cheong'', indigenous Japanese あお ''ao'', さお ''sao'' and しい ''shii'', and Sino-Japanese せい ''sei'' and しょう ''shō''.</ref> Most natural and traditional uses of both {{color|blue|blue}} and {{color|green|green}} are represented by this word, including the color of the sea, the color of forests, etc. In more recent centuries, there has arisen a greater need to distinguish the concepts that English-speakers would understand as {{color|blue|blue}} and {{color|green|green}}. The newer compound Chinese character 綠 came to use in Chinese, Japanese and Korean to specifically mean {{color|green|green}} as opposed to {{color|blue|blue}}.<ref> This character is as reconstructed Middle Chinese ''ljowk'', Mandarin ''jī'', ''jí'', ''lǜ'' and ''qī'', Vietnamese ''lục'', Korean 록 ''rok'' and 녹 ''nok'', indigenous Japanese みどり ''midori'', and Sino-Japanese りょく ''ryoku'' and ろく ''roku''.</ref>