Meaning of lu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of London Underground.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Initialism of livestock unit.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.
4. A municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
5. A Tai-Kadai language spoken in Yunnan province of China, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
6. A surname from Chinese.
7. Archaic form of loo (“card game”).
   alt-of, archaic, uncountable
8. Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
   historical, uncountable, usually
9. A Chinese surname (see 盧, 卢).
10. A diminutive of the female given name Lucy and related names.
11. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
    countable
12. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 呂／吕 (Lǚ).
    countable
13. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
14. 魯國／鲁国 (Lǔguó); An ancient vassal state of China that existed approximately between 1042–249 BC.
15. Synonym of Luren (“a Chinese language”).
16. A surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, see 陸／陆 (Lù).
17. Initialism of Liberty Union Party.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
18. Alternative spelling of Lugh.
    alt-of, alternative
19. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 盧／卢 (Lú).
    countable
20. Initialism of La Union.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
21. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 陸／陆 (Lù).
    countable
22. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 魯／鲁 (Lǔ).
    countable
23. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 路 (Lù).
    countable
24. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 蘆／芦 (Lú).
    countable
25. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 祿／禄 (Lù).
    countable
26. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 逯 (Lù).
    countable
27. A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 鹿 (Lù).
    countable

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Examples

“"Why?" said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?" "So you've been hiding, have you?" Peter said. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed!”

“As editor-in-chief of the pro-communist Kuangming News (光明報), Lu He-ruo (呂赫若) became a wanted man after the newspaper was raided by the authorities in August 1949. While many of his friends were arrested and executed, he managed to elude capture by hiding in the mountains of today’s New Taipei City’s Shihding District (石碇). Lu never made it out of the mountains, and his death remained a mystery for decades.”

“An ancient tea tree and Lù Yǔ, the author of Chá by a goatherd.”

“As Lù Xíxìng puts it, 'as for phonophores, Chữ Nôm appears rather lax, and allows graphic simplification, rather like the “graphs with simplified phonetic” (shěngshēngzì 省聲字) in Chinese.'”

“Lù Xiàngshān 陸象山 (1139–1193) was a contemporary of Zhu Xi, as well as an influential philosophical rival.”

“Zhū's critique of his contemporary Lù Xiàngshān 陸象山 was similar to the way he treated Hú Hóng (胡宏 1105–55), the principal figure of the Húnán school. Zhū always considered Lù’s teaching as Chánnist, because he saw him as pursuing a transcendent, immediate enlightenment and neglecting the cultivation of “principle” that could only come from protracted and gradual moral practice.”

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