坴

lù
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a large clod of earth; land (archaic)

Examples

HSK 5
Qīngwā zài shuǐ lǐ hé lùdì shàng dōu néng shēnghuó.
Frogs can live both in water and on land.

Tips

history
坴 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It pictures soil 土 heaped up - a big lump of earth. It survives as the phonetic in 陆 (dry land), 睦 (harmonious) and 勖.
register
Archaic only - seen in etymology notes and old texts, not in modern writing or speech.

Components

ideograph
坴 lù
a large clod of earth
Read as one block: an upper 土 split by 八 over a lower 土, picturing earth piled on the ground. Indexed under Kangxi radical 土. The whole graph is the phonetic in 陆 and 睦.

Filed under radical 土 (tǔ, #32) by convention. 土 is not a separate component in 坴, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

坴 lù