虜

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

虏

🇨🇳

take captive

HSK 10 N1

Human →Relations

lǔ

リョ、ロ

とりこ、とりく

로

Phonosemantic compound. 男 represents the meaning and 虍 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (虜)

男 male+ 虍 tiger (top) =

虜 take captive

男 Meaning component

nán male

male, man

虍 Phonetic component

hū tiger (top)

tiger

虍 is a component form of 虎.

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Simplified (虏)

力 power+ 虍 tiger (top) =

虏 to capture

力 Simplified component

lì power

power, capability, influence

Shorthand for the 男 component in the traditional character 虜.

虍 Phonetic component

hū tiger (top)

tiger

虍 is a component form of 虎.

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Notes

Similar Characters

嬲 flirt 甥 sister's child 舅 mother's brother 卢 rice vessel (simp)慮 ponder (trad/jp)盧 Louvre (trad)虏 to capture (simp)虑 be concerned (simp)虚 void (simp)虛 false (trad)豦 Wild A Wild Boar 雐 a type of bird 鬳 boiler 虐 despotic 虖 to cry 虘虞 concerned about

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

虏

Regular

Modern

Chinese

虏 / 虜 [lǔ]

prisoner of war; to capture; to take prisoner; (old) northern barbarian; slave

Japanese

虜、擒、俘虜とりこ同音

noun

captive; prisoner
victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)

虜りょ同音

noun

archaic captive; prisoner
archaic foreigner; barbarian; slave

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

その音楽は全員をとりこにした。

The music lured everyone.

CHINESE WORDS (9)

expel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900

JAPANESE WORDS (10)

捕虜収容所 [ほりょしゅうようじょ] #76,933

prisoner-of-war camp

俘虜 [ふりょ] #83,307

prisoner of war

捕虜交換 [ほりょこうかん] #90,884

prisoner exchange

俘虜収容所 [ふりょしゅうようじょ] #180,087

prisoner-of-war camp

胡虜 [こりょ] #223,293

northern barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

KOREAN WORDS (1)

captive; prisoner of war