lòu

leak

Water  falling like raindrops  provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

屚 sound component

  Sound component

  

Evolution

漏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
漏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
漏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
漏 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
漏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lòu

leak, drip; funnel; hour glass; to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old)

Most common words with 漏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to leak

漏洞

leak

泄漏

to leak

遗漏

to overlook

漏掉

to miss

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[Nə-r]ˤok-s

luwH

lòu

leak (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 21.3519% of movies

1521st most common character in movies

2052nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6F0F

Shuowen

“漏,以銅受水刻節,晝夜百刻。从水,屚聲。”


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