This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Reading

Kana: ロウ
Romaji: rou
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

year-end sacrifice, dried meat

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  16
Radical Number:  130
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-4-12
Korean Reading:  rab
Chinese Reading:  xi1
Unicode:  81c8
JIS:  6745

Indexes

New Nelson Index: 4870
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 4b15.3
Four Corner Index: 7422.7
Daikanwanjiten Index: 29953X
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 9.0376

Words

(ろう)
year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
上臈 (じょうろう)
court lady; noblewoman
臘乾 (ラカン)
Chinese smoked and salted ham
奥上臈 (おくじょうろう)
woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion
女郎 (じょろう、じょろ、じょうろ)
prostitute (esp. Edo period)
中臈 (ちゅうろう)
court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period); female servant for a samurai family; lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)
臈たける (ろうたける)
to be elegant (usu. of a woman); to be graceful; to be refined; to become well-experienced; to mature
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