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Chinese symbol for “crass”

鲁
lǔ
Traditional: 魯
(bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crass is 鲁 (lǔ), defined as: (bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords).

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Characters and stroke order

鲁 lǔ
foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar
radical 195 ⿂ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “crass”

WordPinyinMeaning
粗暴cū bàocrude; crass; rude; rough; harsh
卤 (鹵)lǔalkaline soil; salt

Related words

Other words that share a character with 鲁.

WordPinyinMeaning
粗鲁 (粗魯)cū lǔcoarse; crude (in one's manner)
布鲁斯 (布魯斯)bù lǔ sīblues (music) (loanword)
鲁莽 (魯莽)lǔ mǎnghot-headed; impulsive; reckless
阿鲁巴 (阿魯巴)ā lǔ bā(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his
达鲁花赤 (達魯花赤)dá lǔ huā chìMongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
古鲁 (古魯)gǔ lǔguru (loanword)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.