luǒ
adjective HSK 7-9 #3,669

Meanings

  1. 1 naked
  2. 2 bare
  3. 3 exposed

Examples

Luǒ yǎn shìlì shì duōshao?
What is your uncorrected (naked-eye) vision?
Zhèlǐ de tǔdì luǒlù zài yángguāng xià.
The land here is exposed to the sunlight.

Tips

usage
appears in many compounds: (naked eye), 裸露 (exposed/bare), 裸体 (nude body). It can describe both literal nakedness and figurative exposure.

Components

radical
clothing (left-side radical)
Five-stroke clothing radical on the left — the side-form of (a robe with collar and sleeves). Indexes in the garment family with sleeve, skirt, bag. The pairing here is wittily ironic: the clothing radical marks as something done with respect to clothes, namely the absence of them — being unclothed.
phonetic
guǒ
fruit; result
Right side supplies the sound (guǒ → luǒ, an old k/l alternation). itself depicts fruit on a tree. Same phonetic anchors , , — the guǒ/kè/luǒ family. The fruit-on-tree image gives a faint flavour of something laid bare on display, fitting nicely with the meaning 'naked.'

Stroke Order

luǒ