陸 (lù)
land; continent; surname Lu
How 陸 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — town
- Traditional
- 陸
- Simplified
- 陆
Components
- 阝 town
- 土 earth
- 八 eight/divide
陸 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- lù
- surname Lu
- liù
- six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
Common words using 陸
- 大陸 dàlù
- mainland China (reference to the PRC)
- 登陸 dēnglù
- to land; to come ashore; to make landfall (of typhoon etc)
- 海陸 hǎilù
- sea and land; ocean and continent; army and navy
- 著陸 zhuólù
- landing; touchdown; to land
- 陸地 lùdì
- dry land (as opposed to the sea)
- 陸續 lùxù
- in turn; successively; one after the other
- 陸豐 lùfēng
- Lufeng county level city in Shanwei, Guangdong 汕尾
- 陸豐市 lùfēngshì
- Lufeng county level city in Shanwei 汕尾, Guangdong
- 陸軍 lùjūn
- army
- 陸陸續續 lùlùxùxù
- in succession; one after another; continuously
- 下陸 xiàlù
- Xialu district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市[Huang2 shi2 shi4], Hubei
- 光怪陸離 guāngguàilùlí
- monstrous and multicolored; grotesque and variegated
陸 in a sentence
他在大陸工作。
Tā zài Dàlù gōngzuò.
“He works in Mainland China.”
How common is 陸?
陸 is the 674th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.1% of all running text.
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