noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 辘轳: a windlass for drawing water from a well

Examples

爷爷辘轳打水
Yéye yáo zhe lùlu cóng jǐng lǐ dǎshuǐ.
Grandpa turns the windlass to draw water from the well.
Jǐng shàng de jiù lùlu zhuàn qǐlái hái zhī xiǎng.
The old windlass on the well still creaks when it turns.

Tips

usage
is bound; it appears only in 辘轳, the rope-and-crank windlass mounted over an old well. The vehicle radical fits because it is essentially a turning wheel-and-axle device.

Components

radical
chē
vehicle; wheel
Left is the vehicle radical , the simplified silhouette of a cart seen from above. It marks the character as a wheeled or rotating mechanism — here the crank and drum of a well windlass.
phonetic
Lu (phonetic)
Right is , here purely for sound, giving the lú reading exactly. The same phonetic appears in (stove) and (hut).

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