簍
lǒu

bamboo basket

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroː
roːʔ
roʔ

說文解字

竹籠也。从竹婁聲。

Sources

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

篓 lǒu, lǚ, jù bamboo basket Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 娄 represents the sound. Simplified form of 簍.

Components

⺮
⺮ Meaning component
zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

娄
娄 Sound component
lóu, lǚ, lǘ surname

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode