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噜

嚕
lū
particle #34,291

Meanings

  1. 1 (onomatopoeia) snoring or grumbling sound
  2. 2 (modal particle) playful tone (often as 啦/咯 substitute, esp. online)
  3. 3 component of 噜苏 (verbose)

Examples

他打呼噜的声音很大。
Tā dǎ hūlū de shēngyīn hěn dà.
He snores very loudly.
好噜！我们出发吧。
Hǎo lū! Wǒmen chūfā ba.
Okay~ let's go!
他说话太噜苏了。
Tā shuōhuà tài lūsū le.
He talks too long-windedly.

Tips

usage
噜 is mostly heard inside compounds: 呼噜 (snore), 咕噜 (mutter, gurgle), 噜苏/啰嗦 (long-winded). Online and in cute speech, it sometimes replaces 啦/咯 as a playful sentence-final particle, e.g. 走噜! ('let's go~'). Standalone, it's almost always onomatopoeia.

Stroke Order

噜 lū