rice vessel

Original meaning: 

stove

Simplified form of . Originally a pictograph of a stove, based on the original meaning "stove", now written as . The and components were added later. In modern Mandarin this character is usually only used for its sound in foreign loan words.

Components
虍 sound,simplified component

  Sound Simplified component

  

tiger

◎ iconic,simplified component

  Iconic Simplified component

  

characterless component

Depicts a stove.

皿 deleted component

  Deleted component

mǐn

  

dish

The traditional component was removed for simplification.

Evolution

卢 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
卢 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
卢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
卢 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
卢 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cottage, hut; surname; black; (old) rice vessel; old variant of |[lú]; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy

() 

surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lú​sēn​bǎo]

Most common words with 卢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

black

卢卡斯

Lucas (name)

卢布

ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)

卢武铉

Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008

卢比

rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 9 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.9678% of movies

1522nd most common character in movies

1711th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+5362


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