There’s an analogous situation with the Chinese color “qing” (青), a complex and nuanced issue debated by antique collectors and linguists alike.

There was an interesting discussion on reddit a while back in regards to Chinese colors (including “qing”) and a really nice data visualization project that attempted to compare Chinese colors with English: http://muyueh.com/greenhoney/ https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/4i9ko5/visuali...