lào
cream
Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 酪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cheese | ||
cheese | ||
cheese | ||
also pr. [luò] | ||
tyrosine (Tyr), an amino acid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.2606% of movies
1748th most common character in movies
3667th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+916A |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“酪,乳漿也。从酉,各聲。” |
Sources
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