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  1. Blue / Indigo
  2. Blue Dragon
  3. Blue Lotus
  4. Blue Sky
  5. Blue Dragon / Azure Dragon
  6. Clear Blue Sky
  7. Green Dragon / Blue Dragon

Blue / Indigo

Color

lán

람*남

藍 is the single character for the color blue in Chinese. It can also mean indigo in Japanese Kanji and old Korean Hanja.

Blue Dragon

cāng lóng

蒼龍 is one of a couple possible titles for, "blue dragon" (occasionally also translated as "green dragon").

The first character means, "deep blue" or "azure."

The last character is dragon.

Blue Lotus

qing lián

seiren

靑蓮 is a common title for Blue Lotus. 靑蓮 is often used in a Buddhist context for blue lotus from the Sanskrit "utpala." This often refers to the clarity and purity of the lotus blue eyes possessed by a Living Buddha. It can also represent purity of mind (without desire, suffering, fear etc).

Blue Sky

The Blue Dome of Heaven

cāng qióng

sou kyuu

蒼穹 is a poetic way to express "sky" in Chinese and Japanese Kanji.

It's like saying, "The blue dome of heaven," or a way to say "blue sky" within a poem.

Blue Dragon / Azure Dragon

qīng lóng

sei ryuu

青龍 / 靑龍 is a scholarly title for "Blue Dragon" or "Azure Dragon."

You'll find this title used in ancient Chinese literature and astronomy. This dragon has dominion over the eastern sky or eastern heavens. The Azure Dragon is also noted for representing the spring season. Also seen as an auspicious omen.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty canonized the five colored dragons as "kings." The Azure Dragon representing the most compassionate of kings.

In Japanese, this title is known with the same meaning but can also be a given name, Seiryuu.

Note, the first character can be written as OR . Same character, just two ways to write it.

Clear Blue Sky

qīng tiān

seiten

青天 means clear sky, and/or blue sky in Chinese and Japanese Kanji.

Sometimes this term is used in Chinese to refer to an upright and honorable official or politician (a very rare thing).

In Japanese, this can also be the name Harutaka.

Green Dragon / Blue Dragon

qīng lóng

sei ryū

청룡

This title can mean blue or green dragon.

The first character can mean blue, green, azure, or celadon.

The second character means dragon.

This is mostly a Chinese title (especially in Buddhism). It will be understood but less commonly used in Japanese and Korean.

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Title	Characters	Romaji(Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Blue Indigo	藍蓝	ai	lán / lan2 / lan
Blue Dragon	蒼龍苍龙		cāng lóng cang1 long2 cang long canglong	ts`ang lung tsanglung tsang lung
Blue Lotus	靑蓮靑莲	seiren	qing lián / qing lian2 / qing lian / qinglian	ch`ing lien / chinglien / ching lien
Blue Sky	蒼穹苍穹	sou kyuu / soukyuu / so kyu / sokyu	cāng qióng cang1 qiong2 cang qiong cangqiong	ts`ang ch`iung tsangchiung tsang chiung
Blue Dragon Azure Dragon	青龍 / 靑龍青龙	sei ryuu / seiryuu / sei ryu / seiryu	qīng lóng qing1 long2 qing long qinglong	ch`ing lung chinglung ching lung
Clear Blue Sky	青天	seiten	qīng tiān qing1 tian1 qing tian qingtian	ch`ing t`ien chingtien ching tien
Green Dragon Blue Dragon	靑龍靑龙	sei ryū / seiryū	qīng lóng qing1 long2 qing long qinglong	ch`ing lung chinglung ching lung
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.