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绿 — green; to cheat on

Pinyin
lù · lǜ
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — lù, lǜ — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 绿: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

绿 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 绿 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 绿茶lǜchágreen teaHSK 2
  2. 绿色lǜsègreenHSK 2
  3. 红绿灯hóng-lǜdēngtraffic light; traffic signalHSK 3
  4. 绿化lǜhuàto make green with plants; to reforest; IslamizationHSK 6
  5. 碧绿bìlǜdark greenHSK 7–9
  6. 翠绿cuìlǜgreenish-blue; emerald greenHSK 7–9
  7. 绿地lǜdìgreen areaHSK 7–9
  8. 绿洲lǜzhōuoasisHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.