This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A cottage 卢 with earthen walls 土; 卢 also provides the pronunciation

  • 垆 clay; hut, shop lú
    • 土 soil, earth; items made of earth tǔ
    • 卢 cottage, hut; black; surname lú
      • 卜 divination, fortune-telling; prophecy bǔ
      • 尸 body, corpse shī

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