綠

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See also: 绿, 緑, 緣, and 缘
綠 U+7DA0, 綠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DA0
← 綟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 綡 →
綠 U+F93D, 綠
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F93D
← 祿
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 菉 →

Translingual

Traditional 綠
Shinjitai 緑
Simplified 绿

Han character

綠 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女弓水 (VFVNE), four-corner 27932, composition ⿰糹彔)

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 926, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27541
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1363, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 3422, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7DA0

Chinese

trad. 綠/緑
simp. 绿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 綠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (彔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
剝 *proːɡ
龣 *kroːɡ, *roːɡ
祿 *roːɡ
淥 *roːɡ, *roɡ
睩 *roːɡ
琭 *roːɡ
箓 *roːɡ
碌 *roːɡ, *roɡ
盝 *roːɡ
娽 *roːɡ, *roɡ
彔 *b·roːɡ
趢 *roːɡ, *roɡ
簶 *roːɡ
綠 *roɡ
逯 *roɡ
錄 *roɡ
醁 *roɡ
騄 *roɡ
菉 *roɡ
籙 *roɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roɡ) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ).

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”).

For the sense “to cuckold”, see 綠頭巾／绿头巾 (lǜtóujīn).

Pronunciation

Note: lù - literary reading preserved in certain proper nouns (鴨綠江, 綠林, 綠營).
Note:
  • liŏh - vernacular;
  • lṳ̆k - literary.
Note:
  • le̍k/lia̍k - vernacular;
  • lio̍k - literary.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /liɔk̚⁵/
/lik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /luoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ly⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /lek̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /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
Baxter ljowk
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 		lù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		luk6
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;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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

  1. green
    綠色／绿色  ―  lǜsè  ―  green (color)
  2. to become green
  3. (literary, only of hair) black and glossy (especially in a youthful-looking way)
    綠鬢／绿鬓  ―  lǜbìn  ―  black hair
  4. healthy; environmentally friendly; green
    綠建築／绿建筑  ―  lǜ jiànzhù  ―  green building
    綠住宅／绿住宅  ―  lǜ zhùzhái  ―  green home
  5. green leaves
  6. green field
  7. Original form of 籙.
  8. Alternative form of 菉 (lù, “name of a plant”)
  9. (symbolic) Islam(ic); Muslim
    綠教／绿教  ―  lǜjiào  ―  (slang) Islam
  10. (politics) related to the pro-independence pan-Green coalition of Taiwan
    綠營／绿营  ―  lǜyíng  ―  Pro-Taiwan Independence camp
  11. (slang) to cuckold
    Synonym: 戴綠帽子／戴绿帽子 (dài lǜmàozi)
  12. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

緑

Kyūjitai

綠

Kanji

綠

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 緑)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 緑: the color green

Readings

Etymology

For names, this 旧字体 (kyūjitai, literally “old form”) of the kanji may still be used. For all other uses, see the 緑 entry.

Proper noun

綠(みどり) • (Midori) 

  1. a female given name.

Korean

Hanja

綠 (eumhun 푸를 록 (pureul rok), South Korea 푸를 녹 (pureul nok))

  1. Hanja form? of 록/녹 (“blue, green”).

Vietnamese

Han character

綠: Hán Nôm readings: lục

  1. green

References

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