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吕
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Definitions
- 1. pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
Words Containing 吕
Lü Meng (178-219), general of the southern state of Wu
see 呂洞賓|吕洞宾[Lu:3 dòng bīn]
snake halberd
Zeebrugge (port city in Belgium)
Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord
Lü Yan (lived c. 874), Tang dynasty poet
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[bā xiān]
Luzon Island, north Philippines
tuning
Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[qín guó], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[qín dài] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[yíng zhèng], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[qín shǐ huáng]
\Mr Lü's Annals\, same as 呂氏春秋|吕氏春秋[Lu:3 shì chūn qiū]
Luzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island (Philippines)
Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom)
Lü Jiamin (1946-) aka Jiang Rong 姜戎[jiāng róng], Chinese writer
lit. “Mr. Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhū zǐ bǎi jiā], compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代[qín dài] Chancellor Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 bù wéi]
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[jiāng zǐ yá]
Lübeck, Germany