The 婁 family
婁 · lóu · ㄌㄡˊ — one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy
Know 婁 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 樓、簍、摟、嘍. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 樓lóu · ㄌㄡˊ部首 木 · treehouse with more than 1 story; storied building88%
- 簍lǒu · ㄌㄡˇ部首 竹 · bamboobasket79%
- 摟lǒu · ㄌㄡˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto hug; to embrace79%
- 嘍lou · ˙ㄌㄡ部首 口 · mouth(final particle equivalent to 了); (particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation)88%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 婁 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 婁 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 84%.
Words this family builds
- 大樓
- 上樓
- 樓梯
- 下樓
- 樓上
- 樓下
- 閣樓
- 跳樓
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