Dictionary › 胪

胪

lú

Character Traditional 臚

What 胪 means

1. belly
2. skin
3. to state
4. to pass on information
5. to display

Words containing 胪

• 大鸿胪dà hóng lúminister responsible for foreign relations and court protocol in imperial China
• 鸿胪寺hóng lú sì(archaic) office in charge of ceremony and protocol

Characters built on 月

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

• 服fúclothes; dress; garment
• 育yùto have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
• 股gǔthigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous
• 骨gǔbone
• 肤fūskin
• 腹fùabdomen; stomach; belly
• 肚dùbelly

Sounds the same

Read lú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炉stove; furnace
• 卢(old) rice vessel; black; old variant of 庐
• 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
• 轳used in 辘轳
• 垆clay; shop
• 籚basket made of rush; spear-shaft
• 栌capital (of column); smoke tree