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陸: land | six

By March 4, 2016January 16th, 2017Japanese Word, Language-Learning

陸 [陆] lù


: land; shore; continent

陸 [陆] liù

numeral
: six (banker’s anti-fraud numeral)

Kun Reading

陸 | おか oka

noun
: land; shore

On Reading

陸 | りく riku

noun
: land; shore

陸 | ろく roku

na-adjective
: good; satisfactory; worthy; decent

陸 | ろく roku

numeric
: six (used in legal documents)

Usage:

陸續 [陆续] lu4xu4: in turn; successively; one after the other; bit by bit
陸軍 [陆军] lu4jun1: army
[陸軍 | りくぐん rikugun: army]
陸[陆]地 lu4di4: dry land (as opposed to the sea)
[陸地 | りくち rikuchi: land]
陸[陆]上 lu4shang4: land based; on land
[陸上 | りくじょう rikujou: land; ground; shore
: (Abbreviation) track-and-field events]
陸[陆]坡 lu4po1: continental slope (boundary of continental shelf)
大陸[陆] da4lu4: continent; mainland; mainland China (reference to the PRC)
[大陸 | たいりく tairiku: continent]
登陸[陆] deng1lu4: to land; to come ashore; to make landfall (of typhoon etc); to log in
著陸 [着陆] zhuo2lu4: landing; touchdown; to land; to touch down
內陸 [内陆] nei4lu4: inland; interior
不著陸飛行 [不着陆飞行] bu4 zhuo2 lu4 fei1 xing2: nonstop flight

陸 [陆] liu4: six (banker’s anti-fraud numeral)

陸[陆]界 liu4jie4: geosphere
陸橋 [陸桥] liu4qiao2: overbridge
[陸橋 | りっきょう rikkyou: viaduct; overhead bridge; overpass
: land bridge]
陸[陆]圈 liu4quan1: geosphere
陸戰隊 [陆战队] liu4 zhan4 dui1: ground combat team
腹陸[陆] fu4liu4: backland
後陸 [后陆] hou4liu4: backland
微大陸[陆]: wei1 da4liu4: microcontinent
硬著陸[陆]: ying4 zheliu4: hardlanding



Japanese common word | expression
陸に上がった河童 | おかにあがったかっぱ oka ni agatta kappa
: a fish out of water; a kappa up on the land



Chinese expression
陸陸續續 [陆陆续续] lu4 lu4 xu4 xu4
: in succession; one after another; continuously

Etymology:
形声 Pictophonetic.
阝 (fu4: place radical 170) suggests the meaning while
(lu4: clod of earth; land) provides the sound.



Specialized Semantic:
六 liu4: 6



簡體 Simplified.
陆. Created as unique simplification #172 (陸 » 陆).



Examples:

陸が見えてきた。
りくがみえてきた riku ga mietekita
Land came in sight.

 
我的飛機在成田機場著陸。
wo3de fei1ji1 zai4 cheng2tian2ji1chang2 zhuo2lu4
My airplane landed at Narita Airport.

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary