緑

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See also: 綠, 绿, and 縁
緑 U+7DD1, 緑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DD1
← 緐
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緒 →

Translingual

Traditional 綠
Shinjitai 緑
Simplified 绿

Etymology

Variant and Japanese Simplified from 綠 (彔 → 录).

In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roɡ) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 录 ()

Han character

緑 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓一水 (VFNME), composition ⿰糹录)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 929, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27541
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3421, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7DD1

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 緑 – see 綠 (“green; to become green; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 綠).

Japanese

Shinjitai

緑

Kyūjitai

綠

Kanji

緑

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 綠)

  1. green

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
緑
みどり
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
綠 (kyūjitai)
翠

From Old Japanese. Originally referred to new buds and shoots, later expanding via metonymy to mean green.

Pronunciation

Noun

緑(みどり) • (midori) 

  1. green (color)
  2. verdure
    緑(みどり)の匂(にお)い
    midori no nioi
    the scent of greenery
  3. a new bud or shoot
  4. (archaic) in the Edo Period, an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan, from ages six or seven through thirteen or fourteen
  5. in kabuki and 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, “puppet theater”), performing just the main parts of a work and omitting the 狂言 (kyōgen)

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Japanese · 色(いろ) (iro) (layout · text)
     白(しろ) (shiro)      灰(はい)色(いろ) (haiiro),
鼠(ねずみ)色(いろ) (nezumiiro) (dated) 		     黒(くろ) (kuro)
             赤(あか) (aka); 深(しん)紅(く) (shinku),
クリムゾン (kurimuzon),
紅(べに)色(いろ) (beniiro),
紅(くれない)色(いろ) (kurenaiiro),
茜(あかね)色(いろ) (akaneiro) 		             オレンジ (orenji),
橙(だいだい)色(いろ) (daidaiiro); 茶(ちゃ)色(いろ) (chairo),
褐(かっ)色(しょく) (kasshoku) 		             黄(き)色(いろ) (kiiro); クリーム色(いろ) (kurīmuiro)
             黄(き)緑(みどり) (kimidori)              緑(みどり) (midori),
青(あお) (ao) (dated) 		             若緑(わかみどり) (wakamidori)
             シアン (shian); 鴨(かも)の羽色(はねいろ) (kamo no hane iro)              水(みず)色(いろ) (mizuiro)              青(あお) (ao)
             菫(すみれ)色(いろ) (sumireiro); 藍(あい)色(いろ) (aiiro),
インジゴ (injigo) 		             マゼンタ (mazenta),
赤紫(あかむらさき) (akamurasaki); 紫(むらさき) (murasaki) 		             ピンク (pinku),
桃(もも)色(いろ) (momoiro)

Proper noun

緑(みどり) • (Midori) 

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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