lóu
building of two or more stories
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 婁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 樓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
floor | ||
building (a relatively large, multi-storey one) | ||
downstairs | ||
upstairs | ||
stair |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 52.0743% of movies
677th most common character in movies
876th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6A13 |
Shuowen | “樓，重屋也。从木，婁聲。” |
Sources
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