瑠璃

Etymology
Shortened from, itself from , a phonetic transcription of. Some scholars suggest that the source term might instead have been.

Noun

 * 1) lapis lazuli
 * 2) the deep blue color of lapis lazuli: azure
 * 3) common name for various blue thrushes (birds) in family, such as the  or
 * 4)  lazurite

Idioms

 * : “lapis lazuli's shine is brought out by polishing” → inborn talent is no substitute for hard work and practice
 * : “lazuli and crystal sparkle when you shine a light on them” → even if two things are different, illumination can make their excellent qualities clear
 * : “you can tell lazuli and crystal by shining a light on them” → the true nature of similar things can be discerned by different means or in different situations
 * : “lazuli is fragile” → a metaphor for the fragility of beautiful things
 * : “even lazuli gets cloudy” → a metaphor for how even the most excellent things lose value over time

Derived terms

 * : azure blue
 * : pelagic marine snails of genus
 * : a jaybird,
 * : a kawara tile with a glossy blue glaze, commonly used in roofing in Japan
 * : one of the 33 manifestations of Kannon, the Buddha or goddess of mercy, depicted standing on a lotus leaf floating in the water, with incense in her right hand and a lotus blossom in her left hand
 * : a slip containing powdered cobalt and applied to ceramics to achieve a deep blue color after firing
 * : another name for, the medicine Buddha
 * : a deep blue and glossy piece of lapis lazuli; a deep blue color, the color of lapis lazuli
 * : holly blue butterfly
 * : navelwort: a flowering plant of genus in family, native to the mountainous regions of Honshū and Hokkaidō; alternate name for related plant
 * : blue admiral butterfly
 * : or
 * : a kind of hexagonal lamp used in the Ōbaku sect of Zen, covered in thin silk and containing a candela made of lapis lazuli, and hung in the main hall of temples
 * : poor man's weatherglass (, syn. ), a low-growing herbaceous annual plant
 * : red-flanked bluetail,, or
 * : a flowering herbaceous perennial plant, the, or
 * : an evergreen shrub of genus, native to the
 * :, a perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia, of genus
 * :, a flowering shrub (, syn. of )
 * :, a flowering shrub (, syn. of )