lǚ
trip
Original meaning:
army campaign
Depicts two soldiers marching beneath a flag. The original meaning was "army campaign", but later shifted to "travel".
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]aʔ | ljoX | lǚ | military unit of 500 men; to go |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 43.6169% of movies
839th most common character in movies
950th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+65C5 |
Shuowen | “旅,軍之五百人為旅。从,从从;从,俱也。,古文旅。古文以為魯、衛之魯。” |
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