Read Edit View history Discussion 卢 lú rice vessel Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Jan 14, 2022, 03:58 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Jan 14, 2022, 03:58 PM verify Changed fields: gloss, hint, originalMeaning, isVerified, components, customSources, strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages Original meaning: stove Simplified form of 盧. Originally a pictograph of a stove, based on the original meaning "stove", now written as 爐. The 虍 and 皿 components were added later. In modern Mandarin this character is usually only used for its sound in foreign loan words. Components 虍 虍 SoundSimplified component Change in sound 卢 and 虍 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese. ◎ ◎ IconicSimplified component Depicts a stove. 皿 皿 Deleted component The traditional component 皿 was removed for simplification. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode