骆 (luò): surname Luo, camel, white horse with a black mane (archaic)
骆 (luò) is a Chinese character meaning “camel.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 马 (semantic) and 各 (phonetic). It ranks #3001 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 骆 horse. Its radical form 马 (horse) appears in many related characters such as 马 (mǎ, horse), 骂 (mà, to scold), 驾 (jià, to drive).
Definitions
- surname Luo
- camel
- white horse with a black mane (archaic)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骆驼 | luò tuo | camel,匹,頭|头) |
| 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) |
| 瘦死的骆驼比马大proverb | shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) |
| 马加骆 | mǎ jiā luò | (loanword) mozzarella |
| 骆马noun | luò mǎ | llama |
| 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 |
| 王杨卢骆 | wáng yáng lú luò | abbr. for Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang ... |
| 骆驼祥子 | luò tuo xiáng zi | Camel Xiangzi, novel by Lao She 老舍 |
| 卡骆驰 | kǎ luò chí | Crocs, Inc. |
| 晒骆驼 | shài luò tuo | xylitol (Cantonese) |
骆 appears in 10 compound words: 40 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 40 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 骆 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
中新网 记者 骆云飞 摄 四重优势叠加 为什么选择毛道乡？
zhōng xīn wǎng jì zhě luò yún fēi shè sì chóng yōu shì dié jiā wéi shén me xuǎn zé máo dào xiāng ?
Photo by Luo Yunfei, China News Network. Four Compounding Advantages: Why Choose Maodao Township?
西安一唐墓出土制作精湛三彩器 三彩骆驼再现丝路商贸往来
xī ān yī táng mù chū tǔ zhì zuò jīng zhàn sān cǎi qì sān cǎi luò tuó zài xiàn sī lù shāng mào wǎng lái
Exquisitely Crafted Sancai Ware Unearthed from a Tang Dynasty Tomb in Xi'an; Sancai Camel Brings the Silk Road's Trade Exchanges to Life
在这期间，老舍的《骆驼祥子》等六部作品被译成英文在美出版。
zài zhè qī jiān , lǎo shě de luò tuó xiáng zǐ děng liù bù zuò pǐn bèi yì chéng yīng wén zài měi chū bǎn .
During this period, six of Lao She’s works, including *Camel Xiangzi*, were translated into English and published in the United States.
男单赛场，中国选手翁泓阳对阵新加坡选手骆建佑。
nán dān sài chǎng , zhōng guó xuǎn shǒu wēng hóng yáng duì zhèn xīn jiā pō xuǎn shǒu luò jiàn yòu .
In the men's singles competition, China's Weng Hongyang faced off against Singapore's Luo Jianyou.
Character Family
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