luǒ
the solitary wasp
A wasp 虫 building a nest in dead 吂 flesh ⺼
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*rˤorʔ (*kˤorʔ.rˤorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˤorʔ ?) | lwaX | luǒ | 蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6866th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+8803 |
Shuowen | “蠃，蜾蠃也。从虫，聲。一曰虒蝓。” |
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