lǔ
oar
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 魯 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤaʔ | luX | lǔ | shield (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4134th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6AD3 |
Shuowen | “櫓,大盾也。从木,魯聲。樐,或从鹵。” |
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