吕
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pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 呂
- Common rank
- #2,384
- Unicode
- U+5415
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
spine · Heisig RSH #865
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 吕
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狗咬吕洞宾，不识好人心 | a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom); to ill reward a person's kindness | |
| 萨尔布吕肯 | Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany | |
| 吕贝克 | Lübeck, Germany | |
| 吕氏春秋 | lit. “Mr. Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred … | |
| 吕梁市 | Lüliang, prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3] | |
| 泽布吕赫 | Zeebrugge (port city in Belgium) | |
| 吕布 | Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord | |
| 吕嘉民 | Lü Jiamin (1946-) aka Jiang Rong 姜戎[Jiang1 Rong2], Chinese writer | |
| 吕纯阳 | see 呂洞賓|吕洞宾[Lu:3 Dong4 bin1] | |
| 吕宋海峡 | Luzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island (Philippines) | |
| 吕洞宾 | Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1] | |
| 吕不韦 | Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subs… | |
| 吕蒙 | Lü Meng (178-219), general of the southern state of Wu | |
| 吕望 | see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2] | |
| 吕宋岛 | Luzon Island, north Philippines | |
| 吕岩 | Lü Yan (lived c. 874), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 吕梁 | see 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4] | |
| 律吕 | tuning; temperament | |
| 吕布戟 | snake halberd | |
| 吕览 | "Mr Lü's Annals", same as 呂氏春秋|吕氏春秋[Lu:3 shi4 Chun1 qiu1] |
Sound family
These characters use 吕 as their sound component — compare how they read.