Chinese Character Wiki
鲁

lǔ

foolish, rude

Original meaning: 

tasty

Simplified form of 魯. Depicts a fish (魚) inside the mouth (甘). Based on the original meaning "tasty". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
鱼 sound,iconic component

鱼  Sound Iconic component

yú

  

fish

甘 iconic component

甘  Iconic component

gān

  

sweetness

Depicts something inside the mouth.

Evolution

鲁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鲁 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鲁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲁 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲁 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

鲁 (魯) 

lǔ

foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar; (bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)

鲁 (魯) 

Lǔ

surname Lu; Lu, ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lǔ​guó]; Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shān​dōng]

Most common words with 鲁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲁

surname Lu

鲁迅

Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers

粗鲁

coarse

秘鲁

Peru

乌鲁木齐

Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

噜 撸 橹 氇 镥

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.1482% of movies

891st most common character in movies

898th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

魯

Unicode

U+9C81


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