麓 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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lù

foot of hill

Phonosemantic compound. 林 represents the meaning and 鹿 represents the sound.

Components

林 Meaning component

lín

forest

鹿 Sound component

lù

deer

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

lù

foot of hill; foothill; foot of a hill

Most common words with 麓

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	山麓	foothills
	麓	foot of a hill
	岳麓山	Mt Yuelu in Changsha 長沙\|长沙[Chángshā], famous for scenery, temples and tombs
	岳麓区	Yuelu district of Changsha city 長沙市\|长沙市[Chángshāshì], Hunan
	麓湖公园	Luhu Park in central Guangzhou

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3583rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	19
Unicode	U+9E93
Shuowen	“麓，守山林吏也。从林，鹿聲。一曰林屬於山為麓。《春秋傳》曰：‘沙麓崩。’，古文从彔。”

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