录
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to carve wood
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 彐 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 録
- Common rank
- #729
- Unicode
- U+5F55
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 录 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A brush used to record stories
Components 彐 氺
How to remember it
record · Heisig RSH #949
broom + snowflake — as a component also called: snowman
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 录
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 名人录 | record of famous men; anthology of biographies | |
| 反转录病毒 | retrovirus | |
| 报录人 | bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations) | |
| 录音机 | (tape) recording machine; tape recorder; CL:臺|台[tai2] | |
| 飞行记录器 | flight recorder; black box | |
| 子目录 | (computing) subdirectory | |
| 反录病毒 | reverse transcription virus; retrovirus | |
| 目录学 | bibliography | |
| 录取通知书 | admission notice (issued by a university) | |
| 日知录 | Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武 | |
| 反转录 | (molecular biology) reverse transcription | |
| 明实录 | Ming Veritable Records, imperial annals of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty | |
| 飞行记录 | flight record | |
| 收录机 | radio-tape recorder | |
| 录音带 | audio tape; CL:盤|盘[pan2],盒[he2] | |
| 清实录 | Qing historical archive, currently 4484 scrolls | |
| 吉尼斯世界纪录 | Guinness World Records | |
| 分录 | entry (accounting) | |
| 录影机 | camcorder; video recorder; videocassette recorder (Tw); CL:臺|台[tai2] | |
| 记录器 | recorder |
Sound family
These characters use 录 as their sound component — compare how they read.