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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lǔ | lu3
English translation
prisoner of war
to capture
to take prisoner
prisoner; to capture, to imprison, to sieze

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

Learning hint

strength

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

虍力

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. nán represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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zài měi 一次 yī cì 碰撞 pèng zhuàng 之后 zhī hòu 百年 bǎi nián ,这些 zhè xiē suì xiè yòu bèi 重新 chóngxīn 俘虏 fúlǔ .

This debris was recaptured a few hundred years after each collision.

de 士兵 shìbīng 袭击 xíjī le 瓜扎坦擒获 qín huò le 一名俘虏 fúlǔ

His men made a sortie to Guazatan and took a prisoner.

chí 冲锋枪 chōng fēng qiāng de míng 男子 nán zǐ 俘虏 fúlǔ le 5 míng 士兵 shìbīng bìng 开车 kāi chē jiāng 他们 tā men 带走 dài zǒu

Men carrying sub-machine guns seized the five soldiers and drove them away.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
俘虏 fúlǔ captive俘虜
to capture
虏获 lǔ huò capture (people)虜獲

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Decomposition

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