琉
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precious stone
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 玉 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 琉
- Common rank
- #2,556
- Unicode
- U+7409
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
glaze · Heisig RSH #1920
jewel + baby Moses
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 琉
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 琉球王国 | Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa) | |
| 琉球群岛 | Ryukyu Islands; Okinawa 沖繩|冲绳[Chong1 sheng2] and other islands of modern Japan | |
| 琉球国 | Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa) | |
| 琉球海 | Ryūkyū Sea; refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Ja… | |
| 阿喀琉斯 | Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the … | |
| 琉球角鸮 | (bird species of China) Ryukyu scops owl (Otus elegans) | |
| 琉特琴 | (loanword) lute | |
| 琉球歌鸲 | (bird species of China) Ryukyu robin (Larvivora komadori) | |
| 琉球 | Ryūkyū; refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan … | |
| 琉璃塔 | glazed pagoda | |
| 琉璃蓝鹟 | (bird species of China) Zappey's flycatcher (Cyanoptila cumatilis) | |
| 琉璃瓦 | glazed roof tile | |
| 琉璃庙 | Liulimiao town in Beijing municipality | |
| 琉璃 | colored glaze used in traditional Chinese architecture; colored or clear glass art object | |
| 琉璃苣 | borage (Borago officinalis) | |
| 帛琉 | (Tw) Palau |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 㐬 — compare how they read.