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(lǜ) - to ponder, to worry (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

Traditional: 虑

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Translation

to ponder, to worry (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character combining the heart radical 心 (xīn) at the foot with 虍 as the phonetic, the heart giving the sense to ponder or to worry.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
心 (heart radical) + 虍 (phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 虑

Examples

Please consider my suggestion.

zǎi

I will think it over carefully.

He did not consider the consequences.

He is pondering moving house.

zǎi

Please carefully consider the consequences.

虑 (lǜ) is a bound morpheme meaning to ponder or to worry; it pairs with 考 in 考虑 (kǎolǜ), to consider.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 虑.

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This word is part of lesson 106.