láo

HSK 6
common

Meaning of

牢 means animal pen; livestock enclosure; sacrificial livestock; sacrificial victim. Pronounced láo. HSK 6.

  • animal pen; livestock enclosure
  • sacrificial livestock; sacrificial victim
  • prison; jail

Character Info

Radical
Strokes7
Components

Stroke Order

Definitions & Examples

Wáng
yáng
láo
 
wéi
shí
wèi
wǎn
 

It's never too late to mend the fold after a sheep is lost.

Nóng
yáng
guān
jìn
le
láo
 

The farmer locked the sheep in the pen.

Zhè
zuò
jiù
láo
quān
xiàn
zài
jīng
fèi
le
 

This old livestock pen has been abandoned now.

yīng
gāi
zǎo
diǎn
xiū
láo
quān
 
fáng
zhǐ
yáng
zài
diū
shī
 

You should fix the pen early to prevent the sheep from getting lost again.

rén
yòng
chái
jiàn
shēng
chù
láo
quān
 

Ancient people built livestock pens with firewood.