Chinese Word: 庐 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

庐 (Trad.: 廬)

Pinyin: lú

English Definition: hut

Chinese Definition:
①房舍：茅庐。庐墓(ａ．古人于父母或老师死后，服丧期间守护坟墓，在墓旁搭盖的小屋居住；b．庐舍和坟墓)。
②姓氏。

Total strokes: 7; Radical: 广

Ideographic:A house 广 with an open door 户; 户 also provides the pronunciation

Character Formation:

⿸ Surround from upper left
- 广 [ guǎng ] broad, vast, wide; building, house
- 户 [ hù ] door; family

Similar Characters: 炉房妒驴

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初出茅庐	chū chū máo lú	venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom); young and inexperienced; novice; greenhorn
三顾茅庐	sān gù máo lú	lit. three humble visits to a thatched cottage; cf famous episode in the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三国演义 in which Liu Bei 刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (the Hidden Dragon 卧龙 ) to his cause by visiting him three times
茅庐	máo lú	thatched cottage
穹庐	qióng lú	yurt (round tent)
庐山	lú shān	Lushan district of Jiujiang city 九江市 , Jiangxi; Mt Lushan in Jiujiang, famous as summer holiday spot

1		ā lú 阿庐 méi yǒu 没有 wèi 为 xīn fáng zǐ 新房子 gǎn dào 感到 zì háo 自豪， tā 他 hěn 很 dān xīn 担心 zhài wù 债务。 Instead of pride in the new house, Mr. Luc is worried about the debt.
2		kě shì 可是 qián 钱 bú gòu 不够， ā lú 阿庐 de 的 ér zi 儿子 zhǐ hǎo 只好 mài diào 卖掉 gèng duō 更多 de 的 tǔ dì 土地。 However, the money was not enough for the construction so Luc' s son had to sell more land to complete it.
3		tán 郯 lú 庐 duàn liè dài 断裂带 zhōng shēng dài 中生代 dà guī mó 大规模 zuǒ 左 xíng 行 píng yí 平移 shǐ 使 liǎng zhě 两者 cuò kāi 错开。 Both of them were offset by large-sized sinistral move of the Tanlou fault in Mesozoic.
4		lí 离 cǎo lú 草庐 bàn 半 lǐ 里 zhī wài 之外， xuán dé 玄德 biàn 便 xià mǎ 下马 bù xíng 步行， zhèng 正 yù 遇 zhū gě jūn 诸葛均。 Half a li from the hermitage they dismounted as a sign of respect. Approaching on foot, they met Zhuge Jun.
5		ā lú 阿庐 hé 和 qī zi 妻子 dōu 都 nián 年 jìn 近 70 le 了， hé 和 xiǎo ér zǐ 小儿子 jí 及 liǎng gè 两个 sūn zǐ 孙子 yì qǐ 一起 zhù 住。 Luc and his wife are around 70 years old and live with their youngest son and two grandchildren.

1		ā lú 阿庐 méi yǒu 没有 wèi 为 xīn fáng zǐ 新房子 gǎn dào 感到 zì háo 自豪， tā 他 hěn 很 dān xīn 担心 zhài wù 债务。 Instead of pride in the new house, Mr. Luc is worried about the debt.
2		kě shì 可是 qián 钱 bú gòu 不够， ā lú 阿庐 de 的 ér zi 儿子 zhǐ hǎo 只好 mài diào 卖掉 gèng duō 更多 de 的 tǔ dì 土地。 However, the money was not enough for the construction so Luc' s son had to sell more land to complete it.
3		tán 郯 lú 庐 duàn liè dài 断裂带 zhōng shēng dài 中生代 dà guī mó 大规模 zuǒ 左 xíng 行 píng yí 平移 shǐ 使 liǎng zhě 两者 cuò kāi 错开。 Both of them were offset by large-sized sinistral move of the Tanlou fault in Mesozoic.
4		lí 离 cǎo lú 草庐 bàn 半 lǐ 里 zhī wài 之外， xuán dé 玄德 biàn 便 xià mǎ 下马 bù xíng 步行， zhèng 正 yù 遇 zhū gě jūn 诸葛均。 Half a li from the hermitage they dismounted as a sign of respect. Approaching on foot, they met Zhuge Jun.
5		ā lú 阿庐 hé 和 qī zi 妻子 dōu 都 nián 年 jìn 近 70 le 了， hé 和 xiǎo ér zǐ 小儿子 jí 及 liǎng gè 两个 sūn zǐ 孙子 yì qǐ 一起 zhù 住。 Luc and his wife are around 70 years old and live with their youngest son and two grandchildren.