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That's just fair - pedestrians aren't detected either
Pedestrians have a button to press to let the signal know they exist. Until we invent car-hands, that seems equivalent enough.
The same character is used in Chinese where it also refers to bluish-green, tending closer to green than blue: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92 There is also a character for a much deeper blue: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%97%8D
In Japanese, the blue sky is 青い空 (aoi sora). No green in it.
Japanese tends to use Chinese characters based on classical meaning.
If you're driving in Japan, you're likely to be eaten by a grue light. That said, we actually mix some blue into modern green lights, so that colorblind people can distinguish the two colors. In official CalTrans terminology, the yellow lights are called "amber lights" -- so we have our own weirdness in the U.S.
That's because they're a mix of yellow and orange. They're called amber across Europe too, officially anyway. :)
I don't think Korean even has a native word for "green". The most common word for "green" in modern usage is 녹색, which comes from the Chinese characters 綠色 and feels more like a technical term than a native Korean word when placed in a sentence.
You only really see it as explicitly “green” because years of training yourself to see it as green because that's what books depicted it as & that's what everyone called it.
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That's just fair - pedestrians aren't detected either
Pedestrians have a button to press to let the signal know they exist. Until we invent car-hands, that seems equivalent enough.
If you're driving in Japan, you're likely to be eaten by a grue light. That said, we actually mix some blue into modern green lights, so that colorblind people can distinguish the two colors. In official CalTrans terminology, the yellow lights are called "amber lights" -- so we have our own weirdness in the U.S.
That's because they're a mix of yellow and orange. They're called amber across Europe too, officially anyway. :)
I've lived here in Japan for the past 18 years and I still tend to call them "midori", much to my wife and children's amusement. But, the hue of the lights are actually somewhere between the typical USA green lights and a blue. My wife (and kids) swear that it actually is a BLUE-hue light whereas I still see Green. SAME issue with the sun. I say it's yellow, they say it's red, and it's not a kanji issue... $0.02.
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I read somewhere (and a Google search brings up many articles that supports this) that among societies and languages that makes fewer distinctions between colors than the global educated society, blue and green are among the most frequent to remain undistinguished.
My dad also doesn't really distinguish between blue and green. It's mostly green to him. And he grew up in Italy...