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呂

呂

呂 U+5442, 呂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5442
← 呁
[U+5441] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呃 →
[U+5443]
See also: 吕

Translingual

Han character

呂 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口 (RHR), four-corner 60600, composition ⿳口丿口)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 181, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3386
  • Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 577, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5442

Chinese

trad. 呂
simp. 吕

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 呂
Mandarin Beijing /ly²¹⁴/
Harbin /ly²¹³/
Tianjin /luei¹³/
/ly¹³/
Jinan /ly⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ly⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ly⁵³/
Xi'an /ly⁵³/
Xining /l̩ʷ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ly⁵³/
Lanzhou /ly⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ly⁵¹/
Wuhan /y⁴²/
Chengdu /ny⁵³/
Guiyang /ni⁴²/
Kunming /luei⁵³/
Nanjing /ly²¹²/
Hefei /zz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ly⁵³/
Pingyao /luei⁵³/
Hohhot /ly⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ly²³/
Suzhou /li³¹/
Hangzhou /lz̩ʷ⁵³/
Wenzhou /løy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ly³⁵/
Tunxi /li³¹/
Xiang Changsha /lei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /nəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /li²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /li⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /li²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²³/
Nanning /ly²⁴/
Hong Kong /løy¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lu⁵³/
/lu²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ly³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ly²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lɯ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /li³¹/
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 呂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lǚ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]aʔ/
English spine; pitch-pipe

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Noun

呂

  1. (anatomy) spine
  2. Only used in 律呂／律吕 (“pitch-pipe”).
  3. a musical note

Proper noun

呂

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

呂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. Spine.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

呂 • ‎(ryeo) (hangeul 려, revised ryeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呂 (lữ, lã, lả, lỡ, lử, lữa, rả, rứa, trả, trở, lớ, lở)

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