luò
river in Shanxi province
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 洛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Luo | ||
Los Angeles, California | ||
Luoyang prefecture-level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times | ||
heroin (loanword) | ||
Morocco |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.4935% of movies
645th most common character in movies
978th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6D1B |
Shuowen | “洛,水。出左馮翊歸德北夷界中,東南入渭。从水,各聲。” |
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