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.
Oracle script
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
black | ||
Lucas (name) | ||
ruble (Russian currency) (loanword) | ||
Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008 | ||
rupee (Indian currency) (loanword) |
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.9678% of movies
1522nd most common character in movies
1711th most common character in books
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+76E7 |
Shuowen | “盧,飲器也。从皿,聲。,籀文盧。” |