Cao Lỗ (

高 Radical 189 or radical tall () meaning "" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 191st i ...

魯, also known as Đô Lỗ, Thạch Thần, or Đại Than Đô Lỗ Thạch Thần) was a Vietnamese weaponry engineer and minister who helped King

An Dương Vương An Dương Vương () was the king and the only ruler of the kingdom of Âu Lạc, a classical antiquity state centered in the Red River Delta. As the leader of the Âu Việt tribes, he defeated the last Hùng king of the state of Văn Lang ...

build a

crossbow A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long fir ...

, which he christened "Saintly Crossbow of the Supernaturally Golden Claw."

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