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Reading

Kana: ロウ
Romaji: rou
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

12th lunar month

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  19
Radical Number:  130
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-4-15
Korean Reading:  rab
Chinese Reading:  xi1
Unicode:  81d8
JIS:  6744

Indexes

Nelson Index: 3830
New Nelson Index: 4888
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 4b15.3
Four Corner Index: 7221.6
Daikanwanjiten Index: 30009
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 9.0378

Words

(ろう)
offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)
希臘 (ギリシャ、ギリシア)
Greece
臘月 (ろうげつ)
twelfth lunar month; 12th month of the lunar calendar
古代ギリシャ (こだいギリシャ、こだいギリシア)
ancient Greece
ギリシャ陸亀 (ギリシャりくがめ、ギリシャリクガメ)
European tortoise; Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca)
旧臘 (きゅうろう)
last December; end of last year
臘梅 (ろうばい、ロウバイ)
wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
臘乾 (ラカン)
Chinese smoked and salted ham
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