绿 綠
绿綠 in English
- green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lu:4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 綠, the traditional character: 绿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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为什么植物是绿色的？
Why are plants green?
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为什么草是绿色的？
Why is grass green?
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你喝绿茶吗？
Do you drink green tea?
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你能告诉我红茶和绿茶的区别吗？
Can you describe to me the difference between black tea and green tea?
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信号灯变绿了哟。
The light has turned green.
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印度国旗叫做「三色旗」，因为它是由三条不同颜色的色条组成的 ﹣ 橙黄色、白色和绿色。
The Indian flag is called the tricolour because it has stripes of three colours – saffron, white and green.
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变成了绿色。
It turned green.
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在第一个红绿灯左转。
Turn left at the first light.