luò

river in Shandong province

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlowk[r]ˤawk(name of a river)
Zhengzhangpqʰlaːwɢ
raːwɢ
reːwɢ
pqʰloːwɢ
roːwɢ
roːwɢ

說文解字

齊魯閒水也。从水樂聲。《春秋傳》曰:“公會齊侯于濼。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

luò, pō, lì river in Shandong province Simplified

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
lè, yuè happy, music

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode