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剅

剅

剅	U+5245, 剅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5245

← 剄
[U+5244]

CJK Unified Ideographs

剆 →
[U+5246]

Translingual

Han character

剅 (radical 18 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一廿中弓 (MTLN) or X一廿中弓 (XMTLN), composition ⿰豆刂)

References

KangXi: page 139, character 28

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1991

Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 340, character 1

Unihan data for U+5245

Chinese

simp. and trad.		剅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豆) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
侸	*toː
剅	toː, roː
郖	toː, doːs
鬪	*toːs
鋀	*tʰoː
頭	*doː
豆	*doːs
逗	doːs, dos
痘	*doːs
梪	*doːs
脰	*doːs
荳	*doːs
浢	*doːs
餖	*doːs
毭	*doːs
豎	*djoʔ
裋	*djoʔ
短	*toːnʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): lóu (lou²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: lóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
  - Wade-Giles: lou²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
  - IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lau⁴
  - Yale: làuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ləu/, /təu/▼

Rime
Character	剅	剅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	落侯切	當侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/	/təu/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/	/təu/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/	/təu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/	/təw/
Li Rong	/lu/	/tu/
Wang Li	/ləu/	/təu/
Bernard Karlgren	/lə̯u/	/tə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu	dōu

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*toː/, /*roː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	剅	剅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2461	2476
Phonetic component	豆	豆
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	兠	樓
Old Chinese	/*toː/	/*roː/
Notes		校本認爲𠞭訛字

Definitions

剅

(dialect) waterway underneath a dam or across a dike

References

(Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 71

Japanese

Kanji

剅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: ろう (rō), る (ru), とう (tō), つ (tsu)

Kun: さく (saku), さける (sakeru)

Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: lâu

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References

Nom Foundation