囉 (luo) — in 囉嗦: long-winded; sentence-final tone marker

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囉 character · B2 (est.)

囉＝口＋羅

˙ㄌㄨㄛ · luo

particle/bound — in 囉嗦: long-winded; sentence-final tone marker

字源 FORM — what the parts do

口義mouth — talk that runs on

羅聲luó — gives the sounda net 网 over a bird 隹 with silk 糸

Tluó → luo — the tone flattens into the run of speech

The mouth (口) runs on and 羅 luó carries the sound. 羅 is a net spread wide — the talk spreads the same way, catching everything: 囉嗦、囉里囉唆.

一張嘴（口）像撒網（羅），話鋪了一地——囉里囉嗦。

The mouth (口) casts a net (羅), words spread everywhere — going on and on.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)囉嗦— long-winded, wordy常用

→囉— sentence-final tone particle

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension