碧绿
bì lǜ · HSK 7
green
🌲💎 bì lǜ = jade + green — the deep green of a jade stone
碧 means jade or blue-green (king + white + stone at the bottom), and 绿 means green. Together they describe the rich, saturated green you see in polished jade or dense forest canopy.
绿 — silk radical 纟 + 录 (phonetic)
绿 is a phono-semantic compound. The silk radical 纟 (糸) signals the original sense of a dyed silk color, while 录 supplies the sound. It came to mean the green color produced by such dyes, and now refers to green in general.