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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心中中女 (PLLV), four-corner 95044, composition)

  1. diligent, industrious, sedulous
  2. to encourage
  3. to make efforts
  4. a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 401, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 741, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2345, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+617A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·roː
*roː, *ro
*roː
*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
*roː
*roː
*roː, *ro, *roʔ
*roː
*ɡ·roː
*roː, *ro
*roː
*roː, *roːʔ
*roː, *ro
*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
*roː, *ro, *roʔ
*roː, *ro
*roː, *roʔ
*roː
*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːʔ
*roːʔ
*roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːs, *ro
*roːs, *ro
*sloːʔ
*sloːʔ
*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
*ro
*roʔ
*ros
*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
*klos
*ɡloʔ
*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (37) (37) (37)
Final () (24) (137) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open Closed
Division () III I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨo/ /ləu/ /lɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/lio/ /ləu/ /lioX/
Shao
Rongfen
/lio/ /ləu/ /lioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/luə̆/ /ləw/ /luə̆X/
Li
Rong
/lio/ /lu/ /lioX/
Wang
Li
/lĭu/ /ləu/ /lĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯u/ /lə̯u/ /li̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lóu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 8468 8487 8503
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*roː/ /*ro/ /*roʔ/

Usage notes

The lóu (lou2) reading is for the "diligent, industrious, sedulous, to encourage, to make efforts" definitions while the (lü3) reading is for the "surname" definition.

References


Korean

Hanja

(ru, nu) (hangeul , , revised ru, nu, McCune-Reischauer ru, nu, Yale lwu, nwu)

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