lǜ
green
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 彔 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 綠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
green | ||
green | ||
to reforest | ||
green light | ||
green area (e.g. urban park or garden) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pə.rok | ljowk | lǜ | light blue or green |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 20.2146% of movies
1416th most common character in movies
1088th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DA0 |
Shuowen | “綠，帛青黃色也。从糸，彔聲。” |
Sources
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