HSK 3 · Adjectives

绿 lǜ “green” in Chinese

Traditional 綠

What 绿 means

  1. green

How to say 绿

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale绿lǜ4th tone, falling

绿 in a sentence

  1. 树是绿的。

    Shù shì lǜ de.

    The trees are green.

    Sentence #442154 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我听说英国的草在冬天也还是绿的。

    Wǒ tīngshuō Yīngguó de cǎo zài dōngtiān yě háishi lǜ de.

    I hear the grass in England stays green even in winter.

    Sentence #663263 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你喝绿茶吗？

    Nǐ hē lǜchá ma?

    Do you drink green tea?

    Sentence #2782917 from Tatoeba

How 绿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 绿 (lǜ) with each of its parts in a different colour
绿lǜgreen
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 录to copy · lùSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 录 (lù) hints at the sound. Compare it with lǜ.

How to write 绿

绿 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

绿 (lǜ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 绿 (lǜ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 绿

Words with 绿

绿茶lǜchá · green tea绿色lǜsè · green红绿灯hónglǜdēng · traffic lights

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FAQs

绿 (lǜ) means “green”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it lǜ: lǜ with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 绿 is written 綠. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 绿 from the suggestions. Typing lu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
绿 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.