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yellow-green; chartreuse; lime green
A color between yellow and green, like the color of new leaves in spring or a lime. One of the traditional Japanese color names and one of the standard crayon colors.
新芽は黄緑色をしている。
The new buds are yellow-green.
黄緑のクレヨンで葉っぱを塗った。
I colored the leaves with a yellow-green crayon.
春になると山が黄緑から深い緑へと変わっていく。
When spring comes, the mountains gradually change from yellow-green to deep green.
黄緑 is a standard Japanese color name for the color between yellow and green, like new spring leaves or a lime.
WORD FORMATION:
黄 (yellow) + 緑 (green).
FORMS:
- 黄緑: as a noun (the color itself)
- 黄緑色: as a modifier (yellow-green colored)
- 黄緑の: modifying a noun
COMMON CONTEXTS:
- Art supplies: クレヨンや色鉛筆の黄緑 (yellow-green crayon/colored pencil)
- Nature: 新芽の黄緑 (the yellow-green of new buds)
- Clothing and design
RELATED COLORS:
- 緑: green
- 黄色: yellow
- 若草色: young grass green (a traditional, more poetic name for a similar shade)
- 萌黄色: another traditional name for yellowish-green