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櫓

lǔ

oar

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 魯 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

魯 sound component

魯  Sound component

lǔ

  

foolish, rude

Evolution

櫓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
櫓 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
櫓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
櫓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

橹 (櫓) 

lǔ

oar, scull; row; scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat) (free word)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤaʔ

luX

lǔ

shield (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4134th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

橹

Unicode

U+6AD3

Shuowen

“櫓，大盾也。从木，魯聲。樐，或从鹵。”


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