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鏤

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镂

🇨🇳

inlay

HSK 10

Nature →Elements →Minerals

lòu

ル、ロウ

ちりば.める

루

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

镂

Regular

Modern

Chinese

镂 / 鏤 [lòu]

to engrave; to carve; hard steel

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (4)

镂空 [lòukōng] #45,716

镂刻 [lòukè] #57,136

镌镂 [juānlòu] #59,063

铭心镂骨 [míngxīnlòugǔ] #74,658

engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives

JAPANESE WORDS (5)

散りばめる [ちりばめる] #29,353

彫心鏤骨 [ちょうしんるこつ] #195,865

鏤刻 [るこく] #217,074

鏤骨 [るこつ] #299,537

painstaking efforts

撥鏤 [ばちる]

engraving of lacquer-stained ivory (popular during the Tang dynasty)