hut

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

盧 sound component

  Sound component

  

rice vessel

Evolution

廬 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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hut, cottage; name of a mountain; hut

Most common words with 廬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

庐山

Lushan district of Jiujiang city 九江市, Jiangxi

初出茅庐

novice

hut

桐庐

Tonglu county in Hangzhou 杭州[Háng​zhōu], Zhejiang

桐庐县

Tonglu county in Hangzhou 杭州[Háng​zhōu], Zhejiang

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]a

ljo

hut; inn; to lodge


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2927th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+5EEC

Shuowen

“廬,寄也。秋冬去,春夏居。从广,盧聲。”


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