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骆

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camel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)

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Strokes
9
Radical
馬 +6
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
駱
Common rank
#3,060
Unicode
U+9A86

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Formation & memory

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How 骆 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

马 meaning “horse” + 各 sound ( gè )

Components 马 各

How to remember it

camel (front end) · Heisig RSH #2979

马 horse + 各 each

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 骆

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

WordPinyinMeaning
压死骆驼的最后一根稻草 yā sǐ luò tuo de zuì hòu yī gēn dào cǎo the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom); the final straw
瘦死的骆驼比马大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom); fig. even after suffering a loss…
马加骆 mǎ jiā luò (loanword) mozzarella
骆宾王 Luò Bīn wáng Luo Binwang (640-684), one of Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 …
王杨卢骆 Wáng Yáng Lú Luò abbr. for Wang Bo 王勃[Wang2 Bo2], Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯[Yang2 Jiong3], Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻[Lu2 Zh…
骆马 luò mǎ llama
卡骆驰 Kǎ luò chí Crocs, Inc.
骆驼祥子 Luò tuo Xiáng zi Camel Xiangzi, novel by Lao She 老舍[Lao3 She3]
晒骆驼 shài luò tuo xylitol (Cantonese); see also 木糖醇[mu4 tang2 chun2]
骆驼 luò tuo camel (CL:峰[feng1],匹[pi3],頭|头[tou2]); (coll.) blockhead; ninny

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
洛 luò a river in the Shanxi province; a city
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
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