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Character Decomposition
庐=广+户
Etymology
A house 广 with an open door 户; 户 also provides the pronunciation
Meanings
hut
surname Lu
Luzhou or Lu Prefecture, a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui
Mount Lu in Jiangxi Province
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Idioms with 庐 10 total Chain
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) · fig. can't see the forest for the trees不识庐山真面目bù shí Lú shān zhēn miàn mùventuring from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) · young and inexperienced · novice · greenhorn初出茅庐chū chū máo lúone's true colors · "What Lushan Mountain really looks like" · the truth about a person or matter庐山真面目lú shān zhēn miàn mùlit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Liu Bei recruits Zhuge Liang to his cause by visiting him three times) · fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb三顾茅庐sān gù máo lú
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