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旒

liú

Character

What 旒 means

1. tassel

Characters built on 㐬

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

• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 硫liúsulfur (chemistry)
• 琉liúprecious stone

Sounds the same

Read liú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 留to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 流to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 浏clear; deep (of water); swift
• 刘(classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter
• 瘤tumor
• 榴pomegranate
• 遛used in 逗遛
• 琉precious stone
• 硫sulfur (chemistry)
• 馏to distill; to break a liquid substance up into components by boiling
• 骝bay horse with black mane
• 镏(Taiwan; chemistry) lutetium