Lù

proper noun

A surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, see 陸/陆 (Lù).

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, see 陸/陆 (Lù).

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

    2006, Jie Jack Li, Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use, page 131
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    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.'

    2013, David Holm, Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script, page 768

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

    2014, Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden, Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century, page 231

    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.

    2015, Halvor Eifring, Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context, page 82

Origin

Translations

Chinese Cantonese 陸 /陆
  • 陸 /陆 (luk⁶)Chinese surname
Chinese Mandarin 陸 /陆
  • 陸 /陆 (Lù)Chinese surname
Japanese 陸
  • 陸 (Riku)Chinese surname
Korean 육, 륙
  • 육 (Yuk)Chinese surname
  • 륙 (Ryuk)Chinese surname
Russian Лу
  • Лу (Lu)Chinese surname
Vietnamese Lục
  • LụcChinese surname
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APA

Lù. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/L%C3%B9

MLA

“Lù.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/L%C3%B9. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lù,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/L%C3%B9.

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