■ radical

lǜ

anxious

How it’s built

Simplified form of 慮. Phonosemantic compound. 思 represents the meaning and 虍 represents the sound.

心

simplified

heart — Shorthand for the 思 component in the traditional character 慮.

虍

sound

tiger — 虍 is a component form of 虎. The pronunciation of 慮 was similar to 虍 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

Appears in

Characters that use 虑 as a component, most common first.

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