lù
to carve wood
Original meaning:
windlass
Depicts the top part of a water well used to raise and lower a bucket of water. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pə.rˤok | luwk | lù | carve wood (Shuōwén) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5F54 |
Shuowen | “彔,刻木彔彔也。象形。” |
Sources
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