year end sacrifice

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

meat

巤 sound component

  Sound component

liè

  

a mane

Evolution

臘 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
臘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
臘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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year end sacrifice; dried meat; 12th lunar month; preserved (meat, fish etc)

Most common words with 臘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

希腊

Greece

dried meat

腊肠

sausage

腊月

twelfth lunar month

古希腊

ancient Greece

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.rˤap

lap

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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