What is the exact word for **cyan** color in Japanese language? Is it 青緑 /
あおみどり?
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What is cyan color in Japanese?
If you think of _cyan_ in a technical sense, for example as one of the primary
colours in the CMYK model (so `(100,0,0,0)`) (in the RGB model probably
`(0,255,255)`), then in Japanese it would be シアン ([シアン on Japanese
Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3_\(%E8%89%B2\))).

As you can find in the Wikipedia article, there are several colour names,
which compare to シアン as follows:

  * シアン 

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> [![シアン](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPKOO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPKOO.png)

  * 青緑【あおみどり】・青緑色【せいりょくしょく】 

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> [![青緑](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZQGfB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZQGfB.png)

  * 藍緑色【らんりょくしょく】 

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> [![藍緑色](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCASf.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCASf.png)

  * アクアマリン 

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> [![アクアマリン](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWjqt.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWjqt.jpg)

  * 水色【みずいろ】 

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> [![水色](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XuVsf.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XuVsf.png)

The pictures are from a Google Image search. (I tried to restrict the search
to results from Japan, but somehow there are still some results from Chinese
websites. Still, I think the strategy is clear here.)
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