Chinese Character Wiki

閭

lǘ

village of twenty-five families

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

gate

吕 sound component

吕  Sound component

lǚ

  

pitchpipe

Evolution

閭 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
閭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閭 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閭 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
閭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

闾 (閭) 

lǘ

village of twenty-five families; gate of a village; village

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

櫚

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4175th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

闾

Unicode

U+95AD

Shuowen

“閭，里門也。从門，呂聲。《周禮》：‘五家為比，五比為閭。閭，侶也，二十五家相羣侶也。’”


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