lǜ
law
Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 聿 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ut | lwit | lǜ | law, rule (n.) |
*[r]ut | lwit | lǜ | 不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 48.7266% of movies
547th most common character in movies
526th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5F8B |
Shuowen | “律,均布也。从彳,聿聲。” |
Sources
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