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綠
綠
Translingual
| Traditional | 綠 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 緑 |
| Simplified | 绿 |
Han character
綠 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女弓水 (VFVNE), four-corner 27932, composition ⿰糹彔)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 926, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27541
- Dae Jaweon: page 1363, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3422, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7DA0
Chinese
| trad. | 綠 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 绿 | |
| alt. forms | 緑 | |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *roɡ) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 彔.
Etymology
Starostin derives this from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rwak (“leaf”), and cites Tibetan ཁྲོག་པོ (khrog po, “botanical term used of leaves standing round the stem scattered or alternately”), Burmese ရွက် (rwak), အရွက် (a.rwak, “leaf”) as cognates. Compare also Kinnauri rāgʻ (“blue, green”).
Cognate with 菉 (“name of a plant of uncertain species”). In modern times this character gave rise to 氯 (“chlorine”).
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): luk6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liu̍k
- Min Dong (BUC): liŏh
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): loq (T5)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
- Wade-Giles: lü4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liw
- IPA (key): /ly⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: luk6
- Yale: luhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: luk9
- IPA (key): /lʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liu̍k
- Hakka Romanization System: liug
- Hagfa Pinyim: liug6
- IPA: /li̯uk̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: liŏh
- IPA (key): /l̃uoʔ⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
- Tâi-lô: li̍k
- Phofsit Daibuun: lek
- IPA (Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪk̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /liɪk̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪk̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: lêg8
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: le̍k
- IPA (key): /lek̚⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: loq (T5)
- IPA (key): /lʊʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 綠 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ly⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /ly⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin |
/luei⁵³/ /ly⁵³/ |
|
| Jinan | /ly²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /ly⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou |
/ly²⁴/ /ly⁴²/ |
|
| Xi'an | /liou²¹/ | |
| Xining | /liɯ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan |
/lu¹³/ /ly¹³/ |
|
| Lanzhou | /lu¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ly²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /nəu²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /nu³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /nu²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /lu³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /luʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /luəʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /luəʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /luʌʔ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /luəʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /loʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /loʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /loʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /lo²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /lu²²/ |
| Tunxi | /liu¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ləu²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /nəɯ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /liuʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /liuk̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /liuk̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /lok̚²/ |
| Nanning | /luk̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /luk̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/liɔk̚⁵/ /lik̚⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /luoʔ⁵/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ly⁴²/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /lek̚⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/lok̚⁵/ /liak̚³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 綠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 燭 (8) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力玉切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/lɨok̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/liok̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/liok̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/luawk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/liok̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/lĭwok̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/li̯wok̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lǜ |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 綠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lǜ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ljowk › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pə.rok/ |
| English | light blue or green |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 綠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8554 |
| Phonetic component |
录 |
| Rime group |
屋 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
録 |
| Old Chinese |
/*roɡ/ |
Definitions
綠
- green
- to become green
- healthy; environmentally friendly
- green leaves
- green field
- Original form of 籙.
- Alternative form of 菉 (“name of a plant”).
- (symbolic) Islam(ic); Muslim
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): luk6
- Min Dong (BUC): lṳ̆k
- Min Nan (POJ): lio̍k
- Wu (Wiktionary): loq (T5)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: lu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
- IPA (key): /lu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: luk6
- Yale: luhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: luk9
- IPA (key): /lʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
- IPA (key): /l̃yʔ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
- Tâi-lô: lio̍k
- Phofsit Daibuun: liok
- IPA (Xiamen): /liɔk̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɔk̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /liɔk̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: loq (T5)
- IPA (key): /lʊʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions
綠
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 緑)
- the color green
Readings
Proper noun
綠 (hiragana みどり, romaji Midori)
- A female given name.