liù

land

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

坴 sound component

  Sound component

  

a clod of earth

Evolution

陸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
陸 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
陸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

land, continental; army; an accounting form of U+516D (six); shore; land; continent

() 

surname Lu

() 

liù

six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Most common words with 陸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

大陆

continent

登陆

to land

着陆

landing

陆续

in turn

陆军

army

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]uk

ljuwk

land (as opposed to water)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.9539% of movies

1458th most common character in movies

675th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+9678

Shuowen

“陸,高平地。从,从坴,坴亦聲。,籀文陸。”


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