rice vessel

Original meaning: 

stove

Originally a pictograph of a stove, based on the original meaning "stove", now written as . The and components were added later. In modern Mandarin this character is usually only used for its sound in foreign loan words.

Components
虍 sound component

  Sound component

  

tiger

◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a stove. Unrelated to .

皿 meaning component

  Meaning component

mǐn

  

dish

Evolution

盧 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
盧 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
盧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
盧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
盧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cottage, hut; surname; black; (old) rice vessel; old variant of |[lú]; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy

() 

surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lú​sēn​bǎo]

Most common words with 盧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

black

卢卡斯

Lucas (name)

卢布

ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)

卢武铉

Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008

卢比

rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)

Component uses

Sound component in 12 characters (2 verified)

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.9678% of movies

1522nd most common character in movies

1711th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+76E7

Shuowen

“盧,飲器也。从皿,聲。,籀文盧。”


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