lòu

carve

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartluwH[r]ˤo-scarve
Zhengzhangroːs
ro

說文解字

剛鐵,可以刻鏤。从金婁聲。《夏書》曰:“梁州貢鏤。”一曰鏤,釜也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

lòu, lǘ carve Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
lóu, lǚ, lǘ surname

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode