dried meat

A sacrifice of meat ⺼ for the past year 

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

昔 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

in the past, ancient times

Evolution

腊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dried meat; also pr. [xí]

() 

year end sacrifice; 12th lunar month; preserved (meat, fish etc)

() 

old variant of |[là]

Most common words with 腊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

希腊

Greece

dried meat

腊肠

sausage

腊月

twelfth lunar month

古希腊

ancient Greece