luó
noun #16,209

Measure Word

miàn

Meanings

  1. 1 gong

Characters

Examples

Wǔshī de shíhou yào qiāoluó-dǎgǔ.
When performing the lion dance, you beat gongs and drums.
Tā qiāo le yīxià luó, bǐsài jiù kāishǐ le.
He struck the gong and the competition began.

Tips

culture
锣鼓 (gongs and drums) are essential instruments in Chinese festivals, opera, and lion/dragon dances. The phrase 敲锣打鼓 means to celebrate with great fanfare.

Components

radical
jīn
metal (radical form of 金)
Side-metal radical on the left — compressed five-stroke form of . Indexes in the metal-object family with , , , . names the bronze gong — a flat circular plate struck with a padded mallet at festivals and operas — so the metal radical names the booming substance.
phonetic
luó
to gather; net; surname Luo
Right side supplies the sound luó exactly. (a bird-net over silk, simplified from ) contributes no semantic flavour to 'gong'; it is a pure phonetic loan. The same phonetic appears in (radish), (chatter), (bamboo basket) — a tight luó family clustered around this convenient sound peg.

Stroke Order

luó