Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lú
- Lú
English
- hut, cottage
- surname Lu
- hut
- hut, cottage, shack, or simple and temporary dwelling, often thatched with straw
- name of a mountain
- Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 廬州|庐州[Lu2 Zhou1], a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui
- Mount Lu 廬山|庐山[Lu2 Shan1] in Jiangxi Province
粵語
- 簡陋、供暫時居住嘅房屋、小屋，多數用茅草建成
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 廬
- 地廬dei6 lou4
Basement
- 廬陽lou4 joeng4
see 廬陽區|庐阳区[Lu2 yang2 Qu1]
- 廬山lou4 saan1
see 廬山市|庐山市[Lu2 shan1 Shi4]
- 茅廬maau4 lou4
thatched cottage
- 滑鐵廬waat6 tit3 lou4
to be defeated [colloquial]; Waterloo [written and colloquial]
- 桐廬tung4 lou4
see 桐廬縣|桐庐县[Tong2 lu2 Xian4]
- 穹廬hung1 lou4
yurt (round tent)
- 廬江lou4 gong1
see 廬江縣|庐江县[Lu2 jiang1 Xian4]
- 廬山真面目lou4 saan1 zan1 min6 muk6
the real appearance of a person or thing; one's true chracters (idiom)
- 結廬git3 lou4
to build one's house
- 廬山區lou4 saan1 keoi1
Lushan district of Jiujiang city 九江市, Jiangxi
- 初出茅廬co1 ceot1 maau4 lou4
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
- 廬山市lou4 saan1 si5
Lushan, a county-level city in Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi
- 三顧茅廬saam1 gu3 maau4 lou4
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times)
- 闔廬hap6 lou4
King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC)
- 蝸廬wo1 lou4
humble abode
- 廬江縣lou4 gong1 jyun6
Lujiang, a county in Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui
- 廬陽區lou4 joeng4 keoi1
Luyang, a district of Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui
- 三顧草廬saam1 gu3 cou2 lou4
to sincerely and humbly invite a talented person multiple times, originating from the story of Liu Bei paying three visits to Zhuge Liang's thatched cottage to ask him to come out of seclusion and assist Liu in the Three Kingdoms era
- 桐廬縣tung4 lou4 jyun6
Tonglu, a county in Hangzhou City 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang
- 吳王闔廬ng4 wong4 hap6 lou4
King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC)
- 不識廬山真面目bat1 sik1 lou4 saan1 zan1 min6 muk6
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom)