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捋

lǚ, luō

to pluck

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 寽 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

寽 sound,meaning component

寽  Sound Meaning component

lǜ

  

to take, to seize

寽 also acts as a meaning component.

Evolution

捋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
捋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

捋  

lǚ

to pluck; to gather in the fingers; to rub; to scrape off; to smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers; to stroke

捋  

luō

to hold sth long and run one's hand along it

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤot

lwat

luō

gather, pluck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4049th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+634B

Shuowen

“捋，取易也。从手，寽聲。”


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