lóu

skull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
骨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

bone

娄 sound component

  Sound component

lóu

  

surname

Evolution

髅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lóu

skull; skeleton

Most common words with 髅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骷髅

human skeleton

skull

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3936% of movies

2878th most common character in movies

3761st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Traditional

Unicode

U+9AC5


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