■ radical
lú
cottage
How it’s built
Simplified form of 盧. Phonosemantic compound. 虍 represents the sound, and the remainder of the character is a pictograph of a vessel for cooking rice. The traditional component 皿 was removed for simplification.
虍
sound
tiger — 虍 is a component form of 虎. The pronunciation of 盧 was similar to 虎 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.
◎
iconic
characterless component — Depicts a pot full of rice.
Through the ages
Appears in
Characters that use 卢 as a component, most common first.