碌 · lù
rough, uneven, rocky; mediocre
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
rough, uneven, rocky; mediocre
- Mandarin
- lù
- Cantonese
- luk1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 碌 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 녹
- KS X 1001 (0)
- 록
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+788C
- Radical
- 石 · 112
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 碌
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- luwk · 盧谷 反切 · #3189
- Middle Chinese
- ljowk · 力玉 反切 · #3253
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 16259 · luwk = 通開一入東來 · ljowk = 通開三入鍾來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lù
- kCantonese
- luk1
- kDefinition
- rough, uneven, rocky; mediocre
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 112.8
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:2882
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- lù,luò,liù 42440.130
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- liù 0730.010 · lù 0740.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- liù 229.090 · lù 234.070
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- lù粵luk1 liù粵luk6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 盧谷 力玉
- Kangxi positions
- 0832.030
- Guangyun positions
- 451.09 463.01
- Cangjie
- MRVNE
- Four-corner
- 1763.2