Chinese Character Wiki
漏

lòu

leak

Originally written as 屚, which depicts rainwater (雨) leaking through a house roof (屋). The 氵 (water) component was added later to clarify the meaning.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

屚 sound,iconic component

屚  Sound Iconic component

lòu

  

to leak

Depicts rainwater (雨) leaking through a house roof (屋).

Evolution

漏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
漏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
漏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
漏 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
漏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

漏  

lòu

leak, drip; funnel; hour glass; to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old)

Most common words with 漏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

漏

to leak

漏洞

leak

泄漏

to leak

遗漏

to overlook

漏掉

to miss

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[Nə-r]ˤok-s

luwH

lòu

leak (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 21.3519% of movies

1521st most common character in movies

2052nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6F0F

Shuowen

“漏，以銅受水刻節，晝夜百刻。从水，屚聲。”
Sources

李学勤《字源》p.1011, 1025

許進雄《新編進階甲骨文字典: 甲骨文發現120周年紀念版》p.204



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