青線

あおせん

Meanings

1. Noun blue line
2. area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956) See also: 青線地帯 (あおせんちたい).
3. non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)

Kanji

• 青 blue. Read as あお.
• 線 line. Read as セン.

Words containing 青線

• 青線地帯 (あおせんちたい) area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956)
• 青線区域 (あおせんくいき) area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956)

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