luó

spiral shell

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

累 sound component

  Sound component

lěilèiléi

  

tired

Definitions

 

luó

spiral shell; conch; spiral; snail

Most common words with 螺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

螺旋

spiral

螺丝

screw

snail

陀螺

spinning top

螺丝刀

screwdriver

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.rˤoj

lwa

luó

spiral, snail


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5331% of movies

2323rd most common character in movies

2386th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+87BA


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