Character: 爐
Modern (Beijing) reading: lú
Preclassic Old Chinese: rā
Classic Old Chinese: rā
Western Han Chinese: rā
Eastern Han Chinese: rǟ
Early Postclassic Chinese: lā
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lā
Late Postclassic Chinese: lā
Middle Chinese: lo
English meaning : stove, furnace
Russian meaning[s]: 1) печь, топка; 2) жаровня; курильница
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is lô (Chinese origin is also quite clear for Khmer ḷɔ: 'kiln'). The same character is used to transcribe Viet. tro 'ashes, cinders' (although this may be due purely to phonetic / semantic similarity). For *r- cf. Xiamen lɔ2, Chaozhou lou2, Fuzhou lu2.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 654
Karlgren code: 0069 l
Vietnamese reading: lò
