卤
lǔ HSK7

salt

卤 (鹵) lǔ frequency
crass adjective
crude, stupid, or lacking in manners

那个人的性格既粗鲁又卤莽。

nà gè rén de xìng​gé jì cū​lǔ yòu lǔ mǎng.

That person's character is both rude and reckless.

halogen noun
any of the chemical elements in group 17 of the periodic table

氯和碘都属于卤族元素。

lǜ hé diǎn dōu shǔ​yú lǔ zú yuán​sù.

Both chlorine and iodine belong to the halogen group.

brine noun
alkaline soil, salt, or brine used in food preparation or salt production

这种豆腐是用盐卤点制而成的。

zhè zhǒng dòu​fu shì yòng yán​lǔ diǎn zhì ér chéng de.

This kind of tofu is made using bittern.

卤 (滷) lǔ
braise verb
to stew in soy sauce and spices

妈妈今天卤了一锅牛肉。

mā​ma jīn​tiān lǔ le yī guō niú​ròu.

Mom braised a pot of beef today.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,747th most common 3.92 per million
Movie subtitles
3,873rd most common 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.54 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
鹵滷
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5364

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)