盧 - Dong Chinese dictionary

lú

rice vessel

Original meaning:

stove

Originally a pictograph of a stove, based on the original meaning "stove", now written as 爐. The 虍 and 皿 components were added later. In modern Mandarin this character is usually only used for its sound in foreign loan words.

Components

虍 Sound component

hū

tiger

盧 and 虍 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a stove. Unrelated to 田.

皿 Meaning component

mǐn

dish

皿 hints at the original meaning of 盧, "stove", which is no longer the most common meaning of 盧 in modern Mandarin.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

卢 (盧)

lú

cottage, hut; surname; black; (old) rice vessel; old variant of 廬|庐[lú]; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy

卢 (盧)

Lú

surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lúsēnbǎo]

Most common words with 盧

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	卢	black
	卢卡斯	Lucas (name)
	卢布	ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)
	卢武铉	Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008
	卢比	rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)