Unicode: U+95FE

Pinyin: lǘ

Definition

* 古代二十五家为一闾。 * 原指里巷的大门,后指人聚居处。 倚~而望。~里。~巷。~左(秦代居于里门之左的贫苦百姓)。 * 汇聚。 尾~(水~汇聚之处,泄水的处所)

village of twenty-five families

Structure

闾 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
33_EEB8
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_95AD
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
84_F10B

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC