Blue–green distinction in language describe certain vegetables, apples, and vegetation. "Ao" is also the word used to refer to the color on a traffic light that signals one to "go". However, most other objects—a green car, a green sweater, and so forth—will generally be called "midori". Japanese people also sometimes use the word , based on the English word "green", for colors. The language also has several other words meaning specific shades of green and blue. The native Korean words (Revised Romanization: "pureu-da") or 파랗다 (parah-ta) may mean either blue or green, or bluish green. These adjectives and 파랗다 are used for blue as
Blue–green distinction in language for each of blue (""), green ("") and grey (""). For all three, different shades can be indicated with different (compound) terms, none of them being considered as basic color terms: "bleu " (light blue), "bleu " (sky blue), "bleu " (Navy blue), "bleu " (royal blue); "vert clair" (light green), "vert " (literally: apple green); "gris " (very dark grey), "gris " (literally: mouse grey). French also uses "" for the lighter shade of blue of the sunny sky, that was in turn loaned to English as "azure". Catalan distinguishes blue (') from green (') and grey ('). Other