屡

lǚ · HSK 7

repeatedly

🔁 屡 = corpse radical 尸 over 娄 (lóu) phonetic; lóu shifts to lǚ, meaning over and over

The 尸 top is the corpse/body radical and 娄 underneath gives the lou-to-lu sound. Hook the meaning to the rhyme: lu, lu, lu — the same thing again and again, time after time.

屡 — 尸 corpse radical + 婁 lou (phonetic)
屡 (traditional 屢) is a semantic-phonetic compound: 尸 'body/dwelling' on top with 婁 lou below giving the sound. The original sense related to repeated layers or stacking, which extended to the modern meaning 'repeatedly, frequently, time after time.'

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