鑪
lú

fireplace

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 盧 represents the sound.

Components

釒
釒 Meaning component
jīn metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

盧
盧 Sound component
rice vessel

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlu[r]ˤastove
Zhengzhangraː
Unicodelo

說文解字

方鑪也。从金盧聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

𬬻 lú fireplace Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode