虏
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prisoner of war; to capture; to take prisoner; (old) northern barbarian; slave
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 虍 +2
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 虜
- Common rank
- #3,235
- Unicode
- U+864F
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
take captive · Heisig RSH #2912
虎 tiger + muscle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 虏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蒂森克虏伯 | ThyssenKrupp | |
| 克虏伯 | Krupp | |
| 亡国虏 | subjugated people; refugee from a destroyed country | |
| 捕虏岩 | xenolith (geology) | |
| 虏获 | capture (people) | |
| 臣虏 | slave | |
| 驱除鞑虏 | expel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900 | |
| 俘虏 | to take prisoner; a captive (usu. a prisoner of war) | |
| 鞑虏 | Tartar (derogatory); also used as an insulting term for Manchus around 1900 |