鲁 (lǔ): Shandong, foolish
鲁 (lǔ) is a Chinese character meaning “shandong, foolish.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 鱼 (structural) and 日 (structural). It ranks #898 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 鲁 to talk 日 like a fish 鱼. Its radical form 鱼 (fish) appears in many related characters such as 鱼 (yú, fish), 鲜 (xiān, fresh), 鲨 (shā, shark).
Definitions
- Shandong, foolish
Etymology & Origin
ideographicTo talk 日 like a fish 鱼
Decomposition: ⿱鱼日 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布鲁克林proper-noun | bù lǔ kè lín | Brooklyn, borough of New York City |
| 粗鲁adjective | cū lǔ | coarse |
| 布鲁斯proper-noun | bù lǔ sī | blues (music) (loanword) |
| 耶鲁proper-noun | yē lǔ | Yale |
| 安德鲁proper-noun | ān dé lǔ | Andrew (name) |
| 鲁莽 | lǔ mǎng | hot-headed |
| 秘鲁proper-noun | bì lǔ | Peru |
| 布鲁克 | bù lǔ kè | (name) Brook |
| 贝鲁特proper-noun | bèi lǔ tè | Beirut, capital of Lebanon |
| 布鲁图斯 | bù lǔ tú sī | Brutus (name) |
| 布鲁塞尔proper-noun | bù lǔ sài ěr | Brussels, capital of Belgium |
| 古鲁 | gǔ lǔ | guru (loanword) |
| 赫鲁晓夫proper-noun | hè lǔ xiǎo fu | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964 |
| 普鲁士proper-noun | pǔ lǔ shì | Prussia (historical German state) |
| 鲁宾 | lǔ bīn | Rubin (name) |
鲁 appears in 100 compound words: 30 as the first character, 22 as the last, and 48 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 鲁 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (12)
Georgia (a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea)
Georgia (a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea)
Showing 11 of 12 idioms containing 鲁.
Example Sentences
鲁迅是中国现代文学的奠基人之一。
Lǔ Xùn shì Zhōngguó xiàndài wénxué de diànjī rén zhī yī.
Lu Xun is one of the founders of modern Chinese literature.
欧联附加赛马体会挫布鲁日晋身十六强
ōu lián fù jiā sài mǎ tǐ huì cuò bù lǔ rì jìn shēn shí liù qiáng
The Europa League play-offs defeated Brugge to advance to the round of 16
...昀揭年少叛逆史:翘家15天 带领“放牛班鲁蛇”逆袭
. . . 昀 jiē nián shǎo pàn nì shǐ : qiáo jiā 1 5 tiān dài lǐng fàng niú bān lǔ shé nì xí
... Yun revealed the history of youth rebellion: Qiaojia for 15 days led the "Cattle Herding Banlu Snake" counterattack
秘鲁军用直升机救灾任务坠毁 15人全数罹难
mì lǔ jūn yòng zhí shēng jī jiù zāi rèn wù zhuì huǐ 1 5 rén quán shǔ 罹 nán
Peruvian military helicopter crashed on a disaster relief mission, killing all 15 people
今天日出时在法鲁机场登机
jīn tiān rì chū shí zài fǎ lǔ jī chǎng dēng jī
Boarding at Faro Airport at sunrise today
乌鲁木齐水上乐园大熊猫馆试运营
wū lǔ mù qí shuǐ shǎng lè yuán dà xióng māo guǎn shì yùn yíng
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汤姆为他的粗鲁向玛丽道歉。
Tāngmǔ wèi tā de cūlǔ xiàng Mǎlì dàoqiàn.
Tom apologized to Mary for his rudeness.
您是乌鲁木齐人吗？
Nín shì Wūlǔmùqí rén ma?
Are you from Urumqi?
秘鲁的共通语言是什么？
Bìlǔ de gòngtōng yǔyán shì shénme?
What is the common language in Peru?
你真的很粗鲁，不是吗？
Nǐ zhēn de hěn cūlǔ, bùshìma?
You really are rude, aren't you?
Character Family
鱼 Radical Family — Characters sharing the fish radical
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