lù
bribe
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤak-s | luH | lù | wealth; present (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.5811% of movies
2456th most common character in movies
3270th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CC2 |
Shuowen | “賂，遺也。从貝，各聲。” |
Sources
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