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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lǔ | lu3
English translation
sauce, gravy, broth; brine

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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Salt water shuǐ also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

氵鹵

Explanation

Simplified form of . Pictograph of a bag of salt.

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
salt
卤莽 lǔ mǎng hot-headed鹵莽
卤水 lǔ shuǐ brine鹵水
卤素 lǔ sù halogen (chemistry)鹵素
卤肉 lǔ ròu stewed meat滷肉
卤味 lǔ wèi food prepared by stewing in soy sauce and spices滷味
卤菜 lǔ cài pot-stewed dish滷菜
卤化物 lǔ huà wù halide (i.e. fluoride, chloride, bromide etc)鹵化物
盐卤 yán lǔ brine鹽鹵
卤化 lǔ huà to halogenate鹵化
光卤石 guāng lǔ shí carnallite (hydrated potassium magnesium chloride mineral)光鹵石
卤代烃 lǔ dài tīng haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)鹵代烴
卤族 lǔ zú halogen (chemistry)鹵族

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