lù, lòu
dew
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 路 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.rˤak-s | luH | lù | dew; disclose |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 42.9601% of movies
914th most common character in movies
841st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Unicode | U+9732 |
Shuowen | “露,潤澤也。从雨,路聲。” |
Sources
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