| 蘆葦 | lú wěi | reed | |
| 蘆筍 | lú sǔn | asparagus | |
| 蘆笙 | lú shēng | reed-pipe wind instrument | |
| 蘆席 | lú xí | reed mat | |
| 蘆薈 | lú huì | aloe vera |
| 1 | Rural dweller: The reed bunting is one of the species which tend to avoid cities | |
| 2 | Species which tend to avoid cities include pied flycathers, reed bunting and whitethroat. | |
| 3 | The Chicago team has spent the past three years preparing and studying the fossil, which was lodged in a block of sediment removed from the Lujiatun lake beds in northeast China. | |
| 4 | Only a solitary cracked-voiced reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn. |