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魯

lǔ

foolish, rude

Original meaning: 

tasty

Depicts a fish (魚) inside the mouth (甘). Based on the original meaning "tasty". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
魚 sound,iconic component

魚  Sound Iconic component

yú

  

fish

甘 iconic component

甘  Iconic component

gān

  

sweetness

Depicts something inside the mouth.

Evolution

魯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
魯 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
魯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
魯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鲁 (魯) 

lǔ

foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar; (bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)

鲁 (魯) 

Lǔ

surname Lu; Lu, ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lǔ​guó]; Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shān​dōng]

Most common words with 魯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲁

surname Lu

鲁迅

Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers

粗鲁

coarse

秘鲁

Peru

乌鲁木齐

Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

嚕 擼 櫓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤaʔ

luX

lǔ

dull, blunt, simple

*r.ŋˤaʔ (dialect > *rŋˤ- > *rˤ- > MC l-)

luX

lǔ

(place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.1482% of movies

891st most common character in movies

898th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

鲁

Unicode

U+9B6F

Shuowen

“魯，鈍詞也。从白，鮺省聲。《論語》曰：‘參也魯。’”


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