卤
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to stew in soy sauce and spices
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 卜 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 滷
- Common rank
- #2,107
- Unicode
- U+5364
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Formation & memory
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How 卤 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A container used to brine pickles
Components ⺊ 囗 乂
Words with 卤
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 石英卤素灯 | quartz halogen lamp | |
| 卤化物 | halide (i.e. fluoride, chloride, bromide etc) | |
| 光卤石 | (mineralogy) carnallite | |
| 卤化银 | silver halide (usually chloride) used to fix photos | |
| 金卤灯 | metal halide lamp | |
| 卤素灯 | halogen lamp | |
| 卤水 | brine; bittern; marinade | |
| 卤化 | to halogenate; halogenation (chemistry) | |
| 卤族 | see 鹵素|卤素[lu3 su4] | |
| 卤素 | halogen (chemistry) | |
| 卤菜 | pot-stewed dish | |
| 卤肉 | stewed meat | |
| 卤质 | alkalinity | |
| 拟卤素 | pseudohalogen, e.g. cyanogen (CN)2 | |
| 卤蛋 | peeled boiled egg, stewed in soy sauce and other flavorings | |
| 氢卤酸 | hydrohalic acid (e.g. hydrofluoric acid HF 氫氟酸|氢氟酸[qing1 fu2 suan1], hydrochloric acid HCl… | |
| 卤味 | food braised in soy sauce and spices | |
| 卤味 | variant of 滷味|卤味[lu3 wei4] | |
| 卤属 | see 鹵素|卤素[lu3 su4] | |
| 盐卤 | brine |