lóu

artemisia stelleriana

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroː
ro
roʔ

說文解字

艸也。可以亨魚。从艸婁聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

lóu, lǚ, jù artemisia stelleriana Simplified

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
lóu, lǚ, lǘ surname

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode