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洛

luò

river in Shanxi province

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

各 sound component

各  Sound component

gè

  

each

Evolution

洛 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
洛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
洛 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
洛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

洛  

luò

river in Shanxi province; city; used in transliteration

洛  

Luò

surname Luo; old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)

Most common words with 洛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

洛

surname Luo

洛杉矶

Los Angeles, California

洛阳

Luoyang prefecture-level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times

海洛因

heroin (loanword)

摩洛哥

Morocco

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

落

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.4935% of movies

645th most common character in movies

978th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D1B

Shuowen

“洛，水。出左馮翊歸德北夷界中，東南入渭。从水，各聲。”


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