là
year end sacrifice
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 臘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Greece | ||
dried meat | ||
sausage | ||
twelfth lunar month | ||
ancient Greece |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.rˤap | lap | là | winter sacrifice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.3042% of movies
1941st most common character in movies
1497th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+81D8 |
Shuowen | “臘,冬至後三戌,臘祭百神。从肉,巤聲。” |
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