luò

a white horse with black mane

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

各 sound component

  Sound component

  

each

Evolution

駱 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

luò

a white horse with black mane; a camel; camel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)

() 

Luò

surname Luo

Most common words with 駱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骆驼

camel

camel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤak

lak

luò

white horse with black mane


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6498% of movies

2765th most common character in movies

2856th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+99F1

Shuowen

“駱,馬白色黑鬣尾也。从馬,各聲。”


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