noun #4,975

Meanings

  1. 1 Lu (surname)
  2. 2 Lou

Examples

Lú xiānshēng shì wǒmen de lǎoshī.
Mr. Lu is our teacher.
Nǐ rènshí Lú yīshēng ma?
Do you know Dr. Lu?

Tips

culture
is a common Chinese surname. The traditional form originally referred to a type of rice vessel. It is also used to transliterate foreign names like Lou or Lu.

Components

radical
divination
Divination radical (Kangxi 25) on top — the indexing radical. is a pictograph of cracks on a heated oracle bone. Here it serves as the indexing radical of the simplified form , even though the traditional had a different etymology (a brazier/black pot). Today is mostly a surname ( Lú).
semantic
shī
corpse; body (radical)
Bottom element — historically pictures a person bent or seated. In it is a residual graphic shape from the simplification of (which had + inside a wrapper); the modern stylised shape carries no productive semantic role and is mainly a visual remnant.

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