What 壚 means
Use a Traditional Chinese input method and select 壚 from its candidates.
Type lu in Mandarin Pinyin or ㄌㄨˊ in Zhuyin, the Chinese phonetic alphabet; in Cangjie, enter GYPT.
On Windows, checked in 2026, if 壚 is absent from the candidates, use the Traditional Chinese IME Pad, an on-screen lookup tool, to search by radical (character component) or handwriting.
What does 壚 mean?
It names hard, dark soil and, in compounds, earthen stands or braziers.
An early farming passage in the Shangshu (Book of Documents), an old Chinese classic, uses 壚 for hard, dark soil in 下土墳壚.
In later classical usage, 酒壚 is an earthen stand for wine jars and 茶壚 a small brazier for heating tea. 當壚賣酒 (“selling wine at the stand”) is a literary allusion associated with Zhuo Wenjun; 黃公酒壚 names an old wine shop and is a literary image of remembering friends.
The character combines 土, the earth element, with 盧, a sound component that hints at its pronunciation. Its simplified Chinese form is 垆. Japanese dictionaries also list soil and shop or hut senses; Korean dictionaries of Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) include the black-soil sense.
Classical and specialized; it fits an old quotation, literary allusion, or established compound.
爐/炉 is the stove character; 壚 means soil or an earthen stand, though it can also mean a brazier.
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3Questions people ask
1Why does 壚 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 壚
- Also called
- 垆
- Search it as
- 壚 · lú · lu · 酒壚 · 酒垆 · 當壚 · 当垆 · 茶壚
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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