lǘ
donkey
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 盧 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 驢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
donkey | ||
ass | ||
silly ass | ||
donkey | ||
to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.3729% of movies
2387th most common character in movies
2543rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 26 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A62 |
Shuowen | “驢，似馬，長耳。从馬，盧聲。” |
Sources
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