鏤
lòu
carve
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Most common words with 鏤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
openwork | ||
to engrave | ||
to carve | ||
to engrave | ||
undying gratitude |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤo-s | luwH | lòu | carve |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4301st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+93E4 |
Shuowen | “鏤,剛鐵可以刻鏤。从金,婁聲。《夏書》曰:‘梁州貢鏤。’一曰鏤,釜也。” |
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