lú
rushes
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 盧 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.rˤa | lu | lú | lúwěi 蘆葦 reed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4256% of movies
3082nd most common character in movies
2477th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8606 |
Shuowen | “蘆，蘆菔也。一曰薺根。从艸，盧聲。” |
Sources
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