noun

Meanings

  1. 1 hut
  2. 2 cottage
  3. 3 simple dwelling

Examples

人境车马
Jié lú zài rénjìng, ér wú chēmǎ xuān.
I built my cottage in the world of men, yet hear no noise of carriage or horse.
Tā zhù zài shānjiǎoxià de cǎo lú lǐ.
He lives in a thatched cottage at the foot of the mountain.
Liú Bèi sāngùmáolú, qǐng chū le Zhūgě Liàng.
Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times to win over Zhuge Liang.

Tips

culture
Carries a poetic flavor of the simple, humble scholar's retreat. The chengyu 三顾茅庐 ('three visits to the thatched cottage') describes earnestly seeking out a worthy person, from Liu Bei recruiting Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms.

Components

radical
广 guǎng
shelter; building on a slope
The lean-to-shelter radical wraps the top and left, picturing a roofed structure built against a slope; it marks as a kind of dwelling.
phonetic
door; household
Sits inside the shelter. In the simplified form it stands in for the original phonetic of the traditional ; ('household') also faintly reinforces the idea of a dwelling.

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