盧

Han character

盧 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜心田月廿 (YPWBT), four-corner 2121₇, composition ⿸虍⿱田皿)

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 盧, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Historical forms of the character 盧
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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Originally a pictogram (象形) – an oven. 虍 and 皿 were added in the bronze inscriptions, and the oven pictogram came to be written 田, making the current form a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *b·raː): phonetic 虍 (OC *qʰaː) + semantic 田 (“pictogram of an oven”) + semantic 皿 (“vessel”). This sense (“oven”) is now represented by the character 爐／炉 (lú).

Etymology

black

Inside Chinese, Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs 盧 (OC *râ), which he relates 驪 (OC *rê ~ re) (minimally reconstructed in Schuessler, 2009) by pointing out the vowel alternation *a vs. *e ~ i (Schuessler, 2007);

Outside Chinese, Coblin (1986) compares it to Tibetan རོག་པོ (rog po, “black animal; black, reddish, yellowish brown”) yet Schuessler (2007) notes that the rimes do not match.

Pronunciation

Definitions

盧

1. a surname

   盧照鄰／卢照邻  ―  Lú Zhàolín  ―  Lu Zhaolin (Tang dynasty poet)

2. (obsolete) rice bowl
3. (obsolete) black
4. (Taiwan slang) to make trouble without reason (Originated from 挐)
5. short for 盧森堡／卢森堡 (Lúsēnbǎo, “Luxembourg”)

Compounds

References

• “盧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hut

Hanja

盧 (eumhun 밥그릇 로 (bapgeureut ro), word-initial (South Korea) 밥그릇 노 (bapgeureut no))

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Han character

盧: Hán Nôm readings: lư, lờ, lừ, lô, lơ, lợ, lu, lũ, lứa

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