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Surname Law

羅

Law is a Chinese surname, the Cantonese spelling of 羅 (Luo), which as a word means 'bird net' or 'gauze'.

Characters for the surname Law

The spelling Law is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 羅

    net for catching birds; gauze; surname

    Cantonese lo4 / Mandarin luó

    attested

羅 all spellings of luó

Possible characters for Law

Law 羅 luó · Cantonese
In our records the spelling Law stands for 羅.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
羅luó · Cantonese

Other spellings of the same character

  • Low 羅Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese
  • Lo 羅Cantonese, Hakka
  • Loh 羅Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka

About the surname Law

Law is the Cantonese spelling of the surname 羅 (simplified 罗, Mandarin Luo), read lo4 in Cantonese. The same character is spelled Lo in Hakka (lò) and Lo in Hokkien (lô). 罗 is recorded in public data for Malaysians with this spelling. As a word, 羅 means 'bird net' or 'gauze'; what a surname means depends on the characters a family uses.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 羅 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 羅 · mdbg.net · meaning

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