Keyword
hut
- cottage
- the name of a mountain
- Frequency
- #2949
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
lú
Mnemonic
A house 广 with an open door 户; 户 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
庐山
Lushan district of Jiujiang city 九江市, Jiangxi; Mt Lushan in Jiujiang, famous as summer holiday spot
庐
hut
桐庐县
Tonglu, a county in Hangzhou City 杭州市 (HángzhōuShì), Zhejiang
初出茅庐
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom); young and inexperienced; novice; greenhorn
庐江县
Lujiang, a county in Hefei City 合肥市 (HéféiShì), Anhui
茅庐
thatched cottage
结庐
to build one's house
庐阳区
Luyang, a district of Hefei City 合肥市 (HéféiShì), Anhui
三顾茅庐
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 (SānguóYǎnyì) in which Liu Bei 刘备 (LiúBèi) recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (ZhūgěLiàng) to his cause by visiting him three times); fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
不识庐山真面目
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom); fig. can't see the forest for the trees
庐山区
Lushan district of Jiujiang city 九江市, Jiangxi
穹庐
yurt (round tent)