卢

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(old) rice vessel; black; old variant of 廬|庐[lu2]; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy

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Louvre · Heisig RSH #2134

magic wand + flag

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
巴尼亚卢卡	Bā ní yà Lú kǎ	Banja Luka (city in Bosnia)
圣卢西亚岛	Shèng lú xī yà Dǎo	Saint Lucia
里约热内卢	Lǐ yuē rè nèi lú	Rio de Janeiro
提布卢斯	Tí bù lú sī	Tibullus (55 BC-19 BC), Latin poet
贝卢斯科尼	Bèi lú sī kē ní	Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime mini…
圣卢西亚	Shèng lú xī yà	Saint Lucia
卢比安纳	Lú bǐ ān nà	Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia (Tw)
卢瓦尔河	Lú wǎ ěr Hé	Loire River, France
卢龙县	Lú lóng Xiàn	Lulong, a county in Qinhuangdao City 秦皇島市\|秦皇岛市[Qin2 huang2 dao3 Shi4], Hebei
高卢语	Gāo lú yǔ	Gaulish or Gallic (language)
卢卡斯	Lú kǎ sī	Lucas (name)
滑铁卢火车站	Huá tiě lú Huǒ chē zhàn	Waterloo Station (London)
卢安达	Lú ān dá	Rwanda (Tw)
卢布尔雅那	Lú bù ěr yǎ nà	Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia
图卢斯	Tú lú sī	Toulouse (France)
卢恩字母	lú ēn zì mǔ	rune
马塞卢	Mǎ sài lú	Maseru, capital of Lesotho
卢克索	Lú kè suǒ	Luxor, city in Egypt
卢萨卡	Lú sà kǎ	Lusaka, capital of Zambia
卢氏县	Lú shì Xiàn	Lushi, a county in Sanmenxia City 三門峽市\|三门峡市[San1 men2 xia2 Shi4], Henan

These characters use 卢 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
卢 sound part	lú	cottage, hut; black; surname
泸	lú	a river in Jiangxi province
鲈	lú	perch; sea bass
鸬	lú	cormorant
颅	lú	skull
胪	lú	to arrange, to display
轳	lú	pulley, windlass, capstan
栌	lú	sumac; loquat; the capital of a column
舻	lú	the prow of a ship