oar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

鲁 sound component

  Sound component

  

foolish, rude

Evolution

橹 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
橹 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
橹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
橹 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
橹 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

oar, scull; row; scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat) (free word)

() 

variant of |[lǔ]

() 

old variant of |[lǔ]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4134th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

Unicode

U+6A79


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