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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lú | lu2
English translation
cottage, hut; black; surname

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Number of strokes

16

Traditional form

Contains the radical

mǐn

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

田皿

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound, and the remainder of the character is a pictograph of a vessel for cooking rice. The traditional component mǐn was removed for simplification.

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
black
卢卡斯 Lú kǎ sī Lucas (name)盧卡斯
卢布 lú bù ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)盧布
卢武铉 Lú Wǔ xuàn Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008盧武鉉
卢比 lú bǐ rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)盧比
卢瑟 lú sè loser (loanword)盧瑟
卢旺达 Lú wàng dá Rwanda盧旺達
卢森堡 Lú sēn bǎo Luxembourg盧森堡
贝卢斯科尼 Bèi lú sī kē ní Silvio Berlusconi (1936-), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011貝盧斯科尼
里约热内卢 Lǐ yuē rè nèi lú Rio de Janeiro里約熱內盧
费卢杰 Fèi lú jié Fallujah, Iraqi city on Euphrates費盧傑
滑铁卢 Huá tiě lú Waterloo (Belgium)滑鐵盧
卢浮宫 Lú fú gōng Le Louvre, Paris Museum盧浮宮
卢湾区 Lú wān qū Luwan district, central Shanghai盧灣區
卢沟桥 Lú gōu Qiáo Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争 Kàng Rì Zhàn zhēng [Kàng​Rì​Zhàn​zhēng]盧溝橋
卢卡申科 Lú kǎ shēn kē Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994盧卡申科
卢瑟福 Lú sè fú Rutherford (name)盧瑟福

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