璐
lù

beautiful variety of jade

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 路 represents the sound.

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king
路
路 Sound component
lù road

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːɡs

說文解字

玉也。从玉路聲。

Sources

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