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陋

lòu

HSK 6 Character

What 陋 means

1. low
2. humble
3. plain
4. ugly
5. mean
6. vulgar

Example sentences

• 杰西卡穿着一条丑陋的连衣裙。
  Jessica wore an ugly dress.
• 美丽、丑陋、富有、贫穷、强壮和虚弱都是形容词。
  Beautiful, ugly, rich, poor, strong, and weak are examples of adjectives.
• 伯拉罕·林肯，美国第16任总统，生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。
  Bó lā hǎn · Línkěn, Měiguó dì 16 rèn zǒngtǒng, shēng yú Kěntǎjīzhōu de yī gè jiǎnlòu de xiǎowū lǐ.
  Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
• “我认为完美是丑陋的”，他说道。“人们做的事情，我希望看到的是创伤，失败，混乱，扭曲。”
  "wǒ rènwéi wánměi shì chǒulòu de ", tā shuōdào."rénmen zuò de shìqing, wǒ xīwàng kàn dào de shì chuāngshāng, shībài, hùnluàn, niǔqū."
  "I think perfection is ugly", he said. "Somewhere in the things that humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."

Words starting with 陋

• 陋习lòu xícorrupt practice; bad habits; malpractice
• 陋俗lòu súundesirable customs
• 陋居Lòu jūThe Burrow (Harry Potter)
• 陋屋lòu wūhumble dwelling
• 陋规lòu guīobjectionable practices

Words containing 陋

• 简陋jiǎn lòusimple and crude
• 丑陋chǒu lòuugly
• 孤陋寡闻gū lòu guǎ wénignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded
• 卑陋bēi lòuhumble; petty; crude
• 孤陋gū lòuignorant; ill-informed
• 寡陋guǎ lòuhaving little knowledge; not well-read
• 愚陋yú lòuignorant and backward
• 浅陋qiǎn lòushallow and crude; meager (knowledge or skill)
• 粗陋cū lòucrude; coarse; unsophisticated
• 鄙陋bǐ lòusuperficial; shallow
• 因陋就简yīn lòu jiù jiǎncrude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can…
• 陈规陋习chén guī lòu xí(idiom) outmoded conventions; old-fashioned ways
• 卑陋龌龊bēi lòu wò chuòsordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action)

Characters that look like 陋

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

• 附fùto add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
• 纲gānghead rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link
• 姻yīnmarriage connections
• 胀zhàngto swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 绌chùcrimson silk; deficiency; to stitch
• 陆lù(bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)

Sounds the same

Read lòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 漏to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake
• 露to show; to reveal; to betray
• 镂to engrave; to carve; hard steel
• 瘘fistula; ulceration
• 瘺variant of 瘘