緑
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Translingual
| Traditional | 綠 |
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| Shinjitai | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
| 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
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Japanese
| Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | |
| 綠 |
Readings
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Compounds
Compounds
- 緑衣 (ryokui): green robes; by extension, a parrot
- 緑陰 (ryokuin), 緑蔭 (ryokuin): the shade of a tree, a shady nook
- 緑雨 (ryokū): an early summer rain, a rain in May
- 緑営 (ryokuei): one of the regular army groups in China during the Qing Dynasty
- 緑猿 (midorizaru): the green monkey, Chlorocebus sabaeus
- 緑黄 (ryokuō): greenish yellow
- 緑化 (ryokuka), 緑化 (ryokka): greening, tree-planting
- 緑化運動 (ryokka undō): a greening or tree-planting campaign
- 緑眼 (ryokugan): green eyes, green-eyed
- 緑岩 (ryokugan): green stone; green metamorphic rock
- 緑旗 (ryokki): one of the regular army groups in China during the Qing Dynasty
- 緑玉 (ryokugyoku): a green jewel; poetic name for bamboo
- 緑児 (midorigo), 緑児 (ryokuji): a young child under the age of three, particularly under the old Taihō Code of ancient Japan
- 緑酒 (ryokushu): fresh sake (rice wine)
- 緑樹 (ryokuju): a healthy tree with lush green leaves
- 緑綬褒章 (ryokuju hōshō): a medal of honor with a green ribbon to signify virtuous conduct
- 緑十字 (ryokujūji): the Green Cross, a play on the Red Cross and a symbol in Japan of industrial health and safety
- 緑女 (ryokujo): a girl under the age of three under the Taihō Code of ancient Japan; a young girl
- 緑小灰蝶 (midori shijimi): a type of butterfly, Neozephyrus japonicus
- 緑色 (ryokushoku): the color green
- 緑水 (ryokusui): green water
- 緑青 (rokushō): verdigris, the oxidation of copper
- 緑石 (midorīshi): a type of reef coral
- 緑閃光 (ryokusenkō): green flash
- 緑草 (ryokusō): lush green grass
- 緑藻 (ryokusō): green algae in general
- 緑藻植物 (ryokusō shokubutsu): Chlorophyta, a division of green algae
- 緑藻類 (ryokusōrui): green algae types, as a classification in biology
- 緑苔 (ryokutai): green moss
- 緑黛 (ryokutai): green eyebrow paint, a type of cosmetic
- 緑啄木鳥 (aogera): the Japanese green woodpecker, Picus awokera
- 緑地 (ryokuchi): a wooded area
- 緑地化計画 (ryokuchika keikaku): an afforestation plan
- 緑地帯 (ryokuchitai): a greenbelt
- 緑竹 (ryokuchiku): lush green bamboo
- 緑茶 (ryokucha): green tea
- 緑柱玉 (ryokuchūgyoku): a beryl crystal or jewel: an emerald
- 緑柱石 (ryokuchūseki]): the mineral beryl
- 緑虫 (midorimushi): Euglena, a genus of unicellular flagellate protists.
- 緑虫植物 (midorimushi shokubutsu): Euglenoidea/Euglenophyceae, a class of unicellular flagellate protists.
- 緑泥 (ryokudei): a green mud containing significant amounts of chlorite
- 緑泥石 (ryokudeiseki): chlorites, a group of phyllosilicate minerals
- 緑泥片岩 (ryokudei hengan): chlorite schist
- 緑土 (ryokudo): a wooded area
- 緑豆 (ryokuzu) 緑豆 (ryokutō): alternate name for the 八重生 (yaenari), the mung bean
- 緑内障 (ryokunaishō): glaucoma
- 緑波 (ryokuha): a green wave
- 緑髪 (ryokuhatsu): healthy and shiny black hair; a euphemism for a monk or nun
- 緑鳩 (aobato): the Japanese green pigeon, Treron sieboldii
- 緑肥 (ryokuhi): green manure
- 緑肥作物 (ryokuhi sakumotsu): the plants or crop used to make green manure
- 緑蕪 (ryokubu): lush green grass or weeds
- 緑風 (ryokufū): the soft breezes of late spring and early summer: zephyr
- 緑風会 (Ryokufūkai): Japanese a political faction formed in 1947, lasting until 1965
- 緑便 (ryokuben): green stool or feces, such as that produced by children suffering from digestive problems
- 緑門 (ryokumon): an arched gate made of cedar or cypress boughs, made at times of celebration
- 緑野 (ryokuya): a lush green field
- 緑葉 (ryokuyō): green leaves
- 緑葉甘藍 (ryokuyō kanran): alternate name for 羽衣甘藍 (hagoromo kanran), kale
- 緑葉梟 (aobazuku): the brown hawk-owl, Ninox scutulata
- 緑羅 (ryokura): light green
- 緑林 (ryokurin): lush green woods; a thief's or robber's hideout; by extension, thieves or robbers
- 緑簾石 (ryokurenseki): epidote, a calcium aluminum iron sorosilicate mineral: Ca2Al2(FeIIIAl)(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH)
- 緑礬 (ryokuban), 緑礬 (rōha), 緑礬 (rokuban): melanterite, a mineral form of hydrous iron(II) sulfate: FeSO4·7H2O
- 緑蘿 (ryokura): lush green ivy or vines
- 緑衫 (rōsō), 緑衫 (rokusan): a dark green coat worn by a sixth-ranked official in ancient Japan
- 緑袍 (ryokuhō): a green overcoat worn by nobility; a noble rank in ancient Japan
- 緑光 (ryokkō): green flash
- 閃緑岩 (senryokugan): diorite
- 嫩緑 (donryoku): tender green
- 白緑 (byakuroku): whitish green
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 緑 |
| みどり Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
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| 綠 (kyūjitai) 翠 |
From Old Japanese. Originally referred to new buds and shoots, later expanding via metonymy to mean green.
Noun
緑 • (midori)
- green (color)
- verdure
- 緑の匂い
- midori no nioi
- the scent of greenery
- 緑の匂い
- a new bud or shoot
- (archaic) in the Edo Period, an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan, from ages six or seven through thirteen or fourteen
- in kabuki and 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, “puppet theater”), performing just the main parts of a work and omitting the 狂言 (kyōgen)
Synonyms
- (courtesan's apprentice): 禿 (kaburo)
- (abridged performance): 見取り, 見取 (mitori)
See also
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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