Chinese Character Wiki

戮

lù

kill

Components
翏 sound component

翏  Sound component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

戈 meaning component

戈  Meaning component

gē

  

spear

spear

Evolution

戮 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
戮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

戮  

lù

kill, massacre; oppress; to kill

戮 (勠) 

lù

to join (forces); variant of 戮[lù]

戮 (剹) 

lù

to peel with a knife; old variant of 戮[lù]

Most common words with 戮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

杀戮

to massacre

戮

to peel with a knife

屠戮

slaughter

诛戮

to put to death

戮力同心

concerted efforts in a common cause (idiom); united and working together

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]iwk

ljuwk

lù

kill


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8603% of movies

2596th most common character in movies

3318th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+622E

Shuowen

“戮，殺也。从戈，翏聲。”


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