luò
a white horse with black mane
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤak | lak | luò | white horse with black mane |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6498% of movies
2765th most common character in movies
2856th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99F1 |
Shuowen | “駱,馬白色黑鬣尾也。从馬,各聲。” |
Sources
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