Meaning
green; chlorine
Chinese: 绿色、氯。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “lü” becomes a different word in each tone. 绿 is the 4th tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
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Common Words
- 绿色lǜ sègreen
- 绿茶lǜ chágreen tea; (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative; a girl who has these qualities
- 绿化lǜ huàto make green with plants; to reforest; (Internet slang) Islamization
- 绿灯lǜ dēnggreen light (traffic signal); (fig.) permission to proceed
- 绿地lǜ dìgreen area (e.g. urban park or garden)
Example Sentence
春天到了，树叶变绿了。Chūn tiān dào le, shù yè biàn lǜ le.Spring has come, and the leaves have turned green.
春天Chūn tiānspring (season)到了dào leat last，树叶shù yètree leaves变biànto change绿lǜgreen了le(completed action)。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The silk radical 纟 (meaning) plus 录 (lù, sound): the colour of dyed silk — ‘green’. Simplified from 綠.
A way to remember it
Silk (纟) + the sound 录 — green.
Easy to confuse with
- 录‘To record’: the right-hand sound part of 绿, on its own.