璐 (lù): a fine, beautiful jade

Meanings

被明月兮佩宝璐。

Pī míngyuè xī pèi bǎo lù.

"Wearing the precious jade pendant" - a line from Qu Yuan describing noble adornment.

璐字常用在女孩的名字里。

Lù zì cháng yòng zài nǚhái de míngzi lǐ.

The character 璐 is very often used in girls' names.

culture

璐 means a precious jade and appears in Qu Yuan's phrase 宝璐. Because jade symbolises virtue and beauty, the character is a favourite in given names.

radical

王 yù

jade

On the left this is the jade radical (the jade form of 玉, written like 王 but without the extra dot). It marks 璐 as a kind of jade.

phonetic

路 lù

road; path

路 gives the exact sound lù and carries no meaning in 璐; it is purely the phonetic.

璐 lù