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卢

lú

Character Traditional 盧

What 卢 means

1. oldrice vessel
2. black
3. old variant of {庐|lú}
4. slangTaiwantroublesome
5. fussy

Other readings

卢 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Lúsurname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg {卢森堡|Lú sēn bǎo}

Example sentences

• 我住在卢森堡。
  I live in Luxembourg.
• 卢卡斯进步了。
  Lukas progressed.
• 罗马人将高卢拉丁化。
  The Romans latinized Gaul.
• 卢卡斯在鸡尾酒派对。
  Lukas was at a cocktail party.
• 罗马人将高卢拉丁化了。
  Luómǎ rén jiāng Gāolú Lādīnghuà le.
  The Romans latinized Gaul.
• 卢卡斯用了一偷来的信用卡。
  Lukas was using a stolen credit card.

Words starting with 卢

• 卢布lú bù(loanword) ruble (Russian currency)
• 卢比lú bǐ(loanword) rupee (Indian currency)
• 卢浮宫Lú fú gōngthe Louvre, museum in Paris
• 卢梭Lú suōJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
• 卢森堡Lú sēn bǎoLuxembourg
• 卢武铉Lú Wǔ xuànRoh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008
• 卢沟桥Lú gōu QiáoLugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that…
• 卢卡Lú kǎLucca (city in Tuscany)
• 卢克索Lú kè suǒLuxor, city in Egypt
• 卢塞恩Lú sài ēnLucerne (city in Switzerland)
• 卢安达Lú ān dáRwanda (Tw)
• 卢萨卡Lú sà kǎLusaka, capital of Zambia
• 卢卡申科Lú kǎ shēn kēAleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994
• 卢恩字母lú ēn zì mǔrune
• 卢比安纳Lú bǐ ān nàLjubljana, capital of Slovenia (Tw)
• 卢布尔雅那Lú bù ěr yǎ nàLjubljana, capital of Slovenia
• 卢瓦尔河Lú wǎ ěr HéLoire River, France
• 卢照邻Lú Zhào línLu Zhaolin (637-689), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四杰
• 卢旺达Lú wàng dáRwanda
• 卢瑟lú sè(loanword) loser
• 卢沟桥事变Lú gōu Qiáo Shì biànMarco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second…
• 卢龙县Lú lóng XiànLulong, a county in Qinhuangdao City 秦皇岛市
• 卢氏县Lú shì XiànLushi, a county in Sanmenxia City 三门峡市
• 卢泰愚Lú Tài yúRoh Tae-woo (1932-), South Korean politician, president 1988-1993

Words containing 卢

• 滑铁卢Huá tiě lúWaterloo (Belgium); Battle of Waterloo (1815); (fig.) a defeat
• 奥卢Ào lúOulu (city in Finland)
• 高卢Gāo lúGaul
• 图瓦卢Tú wǎ lúTuvalu
• 图卢斯Tú lú sīToulouse (France)
• 马塞卢Mǎ sài lúMaseru, capital of Lesotho
• 高卢语Gāo lú yǔGaulish or Gallic (language)
• 提布卢斯Tí bù lú sīTibullus (55 BC-19 BC), Latin poet
• 圣卢西亚Shèng lú xī yàSaint Lucia
• 巴尼亚卢卡Bā ní yà Lú kǎBanja Luka (city in Bosnia)
• 圣卢西亚岛Shèng lú xī yà DǎoSaint Lucia
• 贝卢斯科尼Bèi lú sī kē níSilvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime…
• 里约热内卢Lǐ yuē rè nèi lúRio de Janeiro
• 泰卢固语Tài lú gù yǔTelugu or Telegu, the official language of Andhra Pradesh, India
• 费卢杰Fèi lú jiéFallujah, Iraqi city on Euphrates
• 图卢兹Tú lú zīToulouse (city in France)
• 滑铁卢火车站Huá tiě lú Huǒ chē zhànWaterloo Station (London)
• 佉卢文Qū lú wénKharosthi (ancient language of central Asia)
• 王杨卢骆Wáng Yáng Lú Luòabbr. for Wang Bo 王勃

Characters built on 尸

These share the phonetic component 尸 (shī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 户hùa household; door; family
• 局júnarrow
• 属shǔcategory; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up
• 履lǚshoe; to tread on
• 屋wū(bound form) house; (bound form) room
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 屈qūbent; to feel wronged

Characters that look like 卢

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 户hùa household; door; family
• 井jǐnga well; neat; orderly

Sounds the same

Read lú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炉stove; furnace
• 芦rush; reed; Phragmites communis
• 庐hut
• 颅forehead; skull
• 泸old name of a river in Jiangxi; place name
• 鲈common perch; bass
• 鸬used in 鸬鹚
• 胪belly; skin; to state
• 轳used in 辘轳
• 垆clay; shop
• 籚basket made of rush; spear-shaft
• 栌capital (of column); smoke tree