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洛

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Strokes
9
Radical
水 +6
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
洛
Common rank
#608
Unicode
U+6D1B

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Formation & memory

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How 洛 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 各 sound ( gè )

Components 氵 各

How to remember it

L.A. · Heisig RSH #315

各 each + 水 water

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 洛

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

WordPinyinMeaning
斯洛文尼亚语 Sī luò wén ní yà yǔ Slovenian (language)
斯洛文尼亚 Sī luò wén ní yà Slovenia
斯洛文尼亚共和国 Sī luò wén ní yà Gòng hé guó Republic of Slovenia
洛克西德 Luò kè xī dé Lockheed (US aerospace company)
斯维尔德洛夫 Sī wéi ěr dé luò fū Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Ts…
格洛斯特 Gé luò sī tè Gloucester city in southwest England
马斯洛 Mǎ sī luò Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), US psychologist
泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯 Tài tè sī · Ān dé luò ní kè sī Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
洛克人 Luò kè rén Rockman or Mega Man (video game series)
兰斯洛特 Lán sī luò tè Lancelot (name)
斯洛维尼亚 Sī luò wéi ní yà Slovenia (Tw)
洛南县 Luò nán Xiàn Luonan, a county in Shangluo City 商洛市[Shang1 luo4 Shi4], Shaanxi
奥斯特洛夫斯基 Ào sī tè luò fū sī jī Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer; Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-…
河洛人 Hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
洛阳市 Luò yáng Shì Luoyang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]
洛神花 luò shén huā roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
巴洛克 bā luò kè baroque (loanword)
洛龙区 Luò lóng Qū Luolong, a district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 Shi4], Henan
洛江区 Luò jiāng Qū Luojiang, a district of Quanzhou City 泉州市[Quan2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian
夏洛特阿马利亚 Xià luò tè Ā mǎ lì yà Charlotte Amalie, capital of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 各 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
各 sound part gè individual; each, every; all
路 lù road, path, street; journey
格 gé form, pattern, standard
略 lüè approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot
络 luò web, net; to entangle
阁 gé cabinet, chamber, pavilion
酪 lào cream, cheese; koumiss
胳 gē arms; armpit
咯 gē final particle
骆 luò camel
烙 lào to burn, to brand; hot iron
恪 kè respectful, reverent
珞 luò a kind of necklace
貉 mò raccoon dog
骼 gé bone, skeleton; corpse
饹 gē buckwheat or sorghum noodles
铬 gè chromium
袼 gē gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve
硌 gè hard, bulging