lǘ
donkey
Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 户 represents the sound. Simplified form of 驢.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 驴
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 | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9A74 |
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