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律

lǜ

HSK 4 Character

What 律 means

1. law

Other readings

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

• Lǜsurname Lü

Example sentences

• 新人新法律。
  New people, new laws.
• 我要当律师。
  I want to be a lawyer.
• 法律很清楚。
  The law is quite clear.
• 他触犯了法律。
  Tā chùfàn le fǎlǜ.
  He violated a law.
• 律师都是骗子。
  Lawyers are all liars.
• 我妈妈是律师。
  My mother is a lawyer.

Words starting with 律

• 律师lǜ shīlawyer
• 律师事务所lǜ shī shì wù suǒlaw firm
• 律动lǜ dòngrhythm; to move rhythmically
• 律诗lǜ shīregular verse; strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines…
• 律所lǜ suǒlaw firm (abbr. for 律师事务所
• 律条lǜ tiáoa law
• 律法lǜ fǎlaws and decrees
• 律政司Lǜ zhèng sīDepartment of Justice (Hong Kong)
• 律吕lǜ lǚtuning; temperament

Words containing 律

• 法律fǎ lǜlaw
• 规律guī lǜrule (e.g. of science); law of behavior; regular pattern
• 纪律jì lǜdiscipline
• 一律yī lǜsame; identical; uniformly; all; without exception
• 旋律xuán lǜmelody
• 菲律宾Fēi lǜ bīnthe Philippines
• 定律dìng lǜscientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy)…
• 自律zì lǜself-discipline; self-regulation; autonomy (ethics)
• 主旋律zhǔ xuán lǜ(music) theme; principal melody; (fig.) central theme; main idea…
• 千篇一律qiān piān yī lǜthousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive…
• 韵律yùn lǜcadence; rhythm; rhyme scheme
• 戒律jiè lǜmonastic discipline; commandment
• 规律性guī lǜ xìngregular
• 七律qī lǜverse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 characters, with rhyme on alternate lines…
• 格律gé lǜforms of versification; conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of…
• 底特律Dǐ tè lǜDetroit, Michigan
• 音律yīn lǜtuning; temperament; music
• 他律tā lǜexternal regulation…
• 以律Yǐ lǜEluid (son of Achim)
• 心律xīn lǜ(medicine) heart rhythm
• 调律tiáo lǜto tune (e.g. piano)
• 结合律jié hé lǜassociative law (xy)z = x(yz) (math.)
• 运动定律yùn dòng dìng lǜlaws of motion (mechanics)
• 自律性组织zì lǜ xìng zǔ zhīSelf-Regulation Organization; SRO

Characters that look like 律

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

• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 津jīnsaliva; sweat; a ferry crossing
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 拂fúto flick; to brush off; (of a breeze) to brush lightly over
• 凋diāowithered
• 骅huáchestnut horse

Sounds the same

Read lǜ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 绿green; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子
• 虑to think over; to consider; anxiety
• 率(bound form) ratio; rate; proportion
• 滤to strain; to filter
• 氯chlorine (chemistry)
• 葎Humulus japonicus
• 鑢polishing tool
• 膟sacrificial flesh
• 垏(literary) earth ridge between fields; (used in place names)
• 嵂to rise sharply; to tower
• 卛old variant of 率