綠化

See also: 绿化 and 緑化

Chinese

		green	‑ize
trad. (綠化)		綠	化
simp. (绿化)		绿	化

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǜhuà

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶ faa³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): le̍k-hòa / lia̍k-hòa / lio̍k-hòa

(Teochew, Peng'im): lêg⁸ huê³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǜhuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lyùhuà
  - Wade–Giles: lü⁴-hua⁴
  - Yale: lyù-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuhhuah
  - Palladius: люйхуа (ljujxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    氯化
    綠化 / 绿化
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: luk⁶ faa³
  - Yale: luhk fa
  - Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹ faa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶ fa³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚² faː³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k-hòa
  - Tâi-lô: li̍k-huà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leghoax
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hua²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɪk̚⁴⁻³² hua¹¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /liɪk̚⁴⁻³² hua²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k-hòa
  - Tâi-lô: lia̍k-huà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liaghoax
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴⁻² hua⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k-hòa
  - Tâi-lô: lio̍k-huà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lioghoax
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hua¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hua²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêg⁸ huê³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: le̍k huè
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lek̚⁴⁻² hue²¹³/

Verb

綠化

to make a place greener by planting trees; to afforest; to landscape
植樹造林，綠化祖國。 [MSC, trad.]
植树造林，绿化祖国。 [MSC, simp.]
Zhíshù zàolín, lǜhuà zǔguó. [Pinyin]
Plant trees and grow forests to green the motherland.
(informal) to Islamicize

Derived terms

立體綠化 / 立体绿化 (lìtǐ lǜhuà)
綠化帶 / 绿化带 (lǜhuàdài)

See also

(Islamicize) 綠教／绿教 (lǜjiào)

Proper noun

綠化

(～村) Lühua (a village in Yonglong, Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China)

Korean

Hanja in this term
綠	化

Noun

綠化 • (nokhwa) (hangeul 녹화)

hanja form^? of 녹화 (“forestation; greening”)