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律

律

Translingual

Han character

律 (radical 60 彳+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人中手 (HOLQ), four-corner 25207, composition ⿰彳聿)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 366, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10097
  • Dae Jaweon: page 687, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 821, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5F8B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 律

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (聿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
筆 *prud
潷 *prud
硉 *ruːd
律 *rud
葎 *b·rud
聿 *b·lud
銉 *lud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rud) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 聿 ‎(OC *b·lud).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 律
Mandarin Beijing /ly⁵¹/
Harbin /ly⁵³/
Tianjin /luei⁵³/
/ly⁵³/
Jinan /ly²¹/
Qingdao /ly⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ly²⁴/
Xi'an /ly²¹/
Xining /l̩ʷ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ly¹³/
Lanzhou /ly¹³/
Ürümqi /ly²¹³/
Wuhan /ny²¹³/
Chengdu /nu³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /li³¹/
Nanjing /lyʔ⁵/
Hefei /lyəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /lyəʔ²/
Pingyao /luʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /lyəʔ⁴³/
/ly⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /liɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /liəʔ³/
Hangzhou /liəʔ²/
Wenzhou /li²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ly²²/
/li²²/
Tunxi /li¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /li²⁴/
Xiangtan /ni²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /liʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lut̚⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /løt̚²/
Nanning /lyt̚²²/
Hong Kong /løt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lut̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /luʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ly²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /luk̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lut̚³/
Rime
Character 律
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 術 (52)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 呂卹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liuɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lʷit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljuet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwit̚/
Li
Rong		 /liuĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /lĭuĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯uĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lǜ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 律 律
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lǜ lǜ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwit › ‹ lwit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ut/ /*[r]ut/
English law, rule (n.) 不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 律
Reading # 1/1
No. 15978
Phonetic
component		 聿
Rime
group		 物
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 律
Old
Chinese		 /*rud/

Definitions

律

  1. statute; principle; regulation; discipline; rule; law
    法律  ―  fǎlǜ  ―  law
  2. to control; to keep under control

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

律

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. law

Readings

Compounds

  • 律儀 - faithful, honest
  • 律詩 - Chinese poetry of eight lines, Lüshi
  • 律動 - rhythmic movement
  • 律動 - the laws of Judaism, Torah
  • 律令 - historical legal code based on Confucianism
  • 因果律 - law of causality
  • 音律 - musical tuning system
  • 戒律 - religious commandment
  • 可換律 - commutative law (in mathematics)
  • 法律 - law, statute

Etymology

Kanji in this term
律
りつ
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Proper noun

律 ‎(hiragana りつ, romaji Ritsu)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

律 • ‎(ryul>yul) (hangeul 률>율)

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Vietnamese

Han character

律 (luật, lót, lọt, rút, rụt, sụt, suốt, trót, luốt, rọt, sốt, trốt, trút)

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