卤

contributes the sense of salt and salty brine · Kangxi radical

contributes the sense of salt and salty brine

The old graph for 卤 shows a bag or vessel with small dots scattered inside it, the dots standing for grains of rock salt. In the modern shape you can still see the outline: an enclosing box-like frame with marks packed inside, like salt sitting in its container. Exactly what the container was meant to be is not certain, but the salt grains inside are clear enough. In a character like 鹾 (brine), 卤 supplies that salty meaning while the other part gives the sound.

卤 at a glance

Meaning

contributes the sense of salt and salty brine

Strokes

7

Characters

2

Role

Contributes meaning

Characters with 卤 (1 of 2)

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