(luó): patrol

(luó) is a Chinese character meaning “patrol.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of (semantic) and (phonetic). It ranks #1580 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).

Etymologically derived, walk. Its radical form (walk) appears in many related characters such as (biān, side), (guò, to pass, past), (hái, still, return).

Native pronunciation

Definitions

  1. patrol

Etymology & Origin

pictophoneticwalk

Decomposition: ⿺辶罗 (layout: surround-from-lower-left)

Stroke Order

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Words & Compounds

HSK Vocabulary with

WordPinyinMeaningHSK
nounluó ji(loanword) logic5

Common Compounds

WordPinyinMeaning
xún luóto patrol (police, army or navy)
xún luó duì(army, police) patrol
xún luó chēpatrol car
luó ji xuélogic
xún luó tǐngpatrol boat
luó gè sī(loanword) (philosophy) logos
shù lǐ luó jímathematical logic
mìng tí luó jipropositional logic
liàng huà luó jiquantificational logic (i.e. first-order logic)
luó ji yǎn suànlogical calculation
luó ji liàn lù kòng zhìlogical link control
luó ji ménlogic gate
luó ji cuò wùlogical error
cí xiàng luó ji(philosophy) term logic
luó jí zhà dànlogic bomb
20
Total compounds
40
As first character
10
As last character
50
As middle character

appears in 20 compound words: 40 as the first character, 10 as the last, and 50 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 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.

0.75250,355 co-occurrences
xún
0.67940,485 co-occurrences
tǐng
0.4452,549 co-occurrences
0.40513,290 co-occurrences
miù
0.402144 co-occurrences
jiē
0.3811,240 co-occurrences
shè
0.36360 co-occurrences
jiàn
0.3601,440 co-occurrences
qián
0.359648 co-occurrences
duì
0.3584,049 co-occurrences

Example Sentences

AI-Generated

保安在小区里巡,确保居民的安全。

Bǎo'ān zài xiǎoqū lǐ xúnluó, quèbǎo jūmín de ānquán.

Security guards patrol the community to ensure residents' safety.

中国军网Feb 2026

我维和官兵完成朱巴到摩吉瑞地区的短途巡和武装护卫任务

wǒ wéi hé guān bīng wán chéng zhū bā dào mó jí ruì dì qū de duǎn tú xún luó hé wǔ zhuāng hù wèi rèn wù

Our peacekeeping officers and men completed short-distance patrols and armed escort missions in the Juba-Mogiri area

鉅亨網 - 財經新聞、全球指數、股市報價、商品行情、理財投資Feb 2026

...多中国资产:A股步入“慢牛”新阶段 驱动辑转向获利成长

. . . duō zhōng guó zī chǎn : A gǔ bù rù màn niú xīn jiē duàn qū dòng luó jí zhuǎn xiàng huò lì chéng cháng

... Multi-Chinese assets: A-shares have entered a new stage of "slow bull", driving logic to profit growth

99 健康网Feb 2026

白糖怎么选?与无糖食品选择辑完全不同吗

bái táng zěn má xuǎn ? yǔ wú táng shí pǐn xuǎn zé luó jí wán quán bù tóng ma

How to choose white sugar? Is it completely different from the logic of sugar-free food selection?

百度新闻Feb 2026

高速交警邀“义务巡员”共吃年夜饭 警民共守平安路

gāo sù jiāo jǐng yāo yì wù xún luó yuán gòng chī nián yè fàn jǐng mín gòng shǒu píng ān lù

Highway traffic police invited "volunteer patrollers" to eat New Year's Eve dinner, police and people to guard the safe road together

百度新闻Feb 2026

新春走军营丨北部战区陆军某边防旅巡艇中队守望北疆..

xīn chūn zǒu jūn yíng 丨 běi bù zhàn ōu lù jūn mǒu biān fáng lǚ xún luó tǐng zhōng duì shǒu wàng běi jiāng . .

The new spring walk military camp丨Army in the northern theater of war a border guard brigade patrol boat squadron watch over the northern border ...

Tatoeba

你不懂基本辑吗?

Nǐ bù dǒng jīběn luóji ma?

Do you not understand basic logic?

Tatoeba

数学就像物理的辑一样。

Shùxué jiù xiàng wùlǐ de luóji yīyàng.

Mathematics is like the logic of physics.

Tatoeba

不正确的命题听起来可能符合辑。

Bù zhèngquè de mìngtí tīngqilai kěnéng fúhé luóji.

An argument may be logically sound without being true.

Tatoeba

最合辑的放鞋处是门口附近。

Zuì hé luó jí de fàng xié chǔ shì ménkǒu fùjìn.

The most logical place to keep your shoes is near the door.

Character Family

Homophones — Characters pronounced luó

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 逻 (luó) mean in Chinese?
逻 (luó) primarily means "patrol." It is classified as HSK Level 5, making it an advanced character. It ranks #1580 in character frequency.
How many strokes does 逻 have?
逻 is written with 11 strokes. The correct stroke order matters for recognition and handwriting speed — practice with the animated guide above to build proper technique.
What is the radical of 逻?
The radical associated with 逻 is 辶 (walk). This radical appears in many characters related to walk.
What are the components of 逻?
逻 is composed of: 辶 (semantic), 罗 (phonetic). Its IDS decomposition is ⿺辶罗 with a surround-from-lower-left layout. Understanding the components helps with both memorization and recognizing related characters.
What are common words containing 逻?
Common words with 逻 include: 巡逻 (xún luó, "to patrol (police, army or navy)"); 逻辑 (luó ji, "(loanword) logic"); 巡逻队 (xún luó duì, "(army, police) patrol"); 巡逻车 (xún luó chē, "patrol car"); 逻辑学 (luó ji xué, "logic"). There are over 20 compound words containing this character.
What characters sound the same as 逻 (luó)?
Several characters share the pronunciation luó: 萝 (radish), 罗 (gauze), 螺 (spiral shell), 裸 (naked), and 1 more. Context and tones help distinguish between them in speech and writing.
Is 逻 the same in simplified and traditional Chinese?
No. The simplified form is 逻 and the traditional form is 邏.

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Character data sourced from Unihan (Unicode Consortium), SUBTLEX-CH frequency corpus (Cai & Brysbaert, 2010), and Make Me a Hanzi (stroke data). Collocation strength measured via NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information). Verified by the HanziFeed linguistics team.

HSK classification follows the HSK 3.0 Standard (Center for Language Education and Cooperation, CLEC, 2022 revision). Idiom data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Data last verified: March 2026.