lüè

rob

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

京 sound component

  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

掠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
掠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
掠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lüè

rob, ransack, plunder; pass by; to take over by force; to rob; to plunder; to brush over; to skim; to sweep

Most common words with 掠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

掠夺

to plunder

to rob

掠过

to flit across

抢掠

to loot

劫掠

to loot