緑

みどり · midori · JLPT N5 · noun

green

🌿 Midori is the melon-green liqueur: the bottle label says green in Japanese

The bright green melon liqueur Midori is simply named with the Japanese word for green. The kanji 緑 has the thread radical 糸 on the left: it originally named the colour of dyed green silk thread.

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