lǒulōu

hug

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

娄 sound component

  Sound component

lóu

  

surname

Evolution

搂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
搂 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
搂 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lǒu

hug, embrace; drag, pull; to hug; to embrace; to hold in one's arms

() 

lōu

to draw towards oneself; to gather; to gather up (one's gown, sleeves etc); to grab (money); to extort

Most common words with 搂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to hug

搂抱

to hug

抖搂

to shake out

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9061% of movies

3007th most common character in movies

2795th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+6402


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