掠 — Chinese character
掠
lüè
to pillage, to ransack
- Pinyin
- lüè
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 扌 京
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 京
- Japanese
- 掠 as a kanji
Common words with 掠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掠夺 (掠奪) | lüè duó | to plunder; to rob |
| 掠过 (掠過) | lüè guò | to flit across; to sweep past |
| 劫掠 | jié lüè | to loot; to plunder |
| 抢掠 (搶掠) | qiǎng lüè | to loot; looting |
| 掠夺者 (掠奪者) | lüè duó zhě | robber; plunderer |
| 飞掠 (飛掠) | fēi lüè | to fly past; to sweep past (at close range); (of a spacecraft) to do a flyby (of a celestial body) |
| 掳掠 (擄掠) | lǔ lüè | to plunder; to pillage; (fig.) to win (people's hearts) |
| 掠食 | lüè shí | to prey on; predation |
| 掠取 | lüè qǔ | to plunder; to pillage |
| 浮光掠影 | fú guāng lüè yǐng | flickering light and passing shadows (idiom); blurred scenery |
| 前掠翼 | qián lüè yì | swept-forward wing (on jet fighter) |
| 拷掠 | kǎo lüè | to torture |
English words written with 掠
掠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.