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流
流
Translingual
Han character
流 (radical 85 水+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水卜戈山 (EYIU), four-corner 34113, composition ⿰氵㐬)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 623, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17572
- Dae Jaweon: page 1019, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1631, character 12
- Unihan data for U+6D41
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
流 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (流) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 流 | *ru |
| 硫 | *ru |
| 琉 | *ru |
| 旒 | *ru |
| 瑬 | *ru |
| 裗 | *ru |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ru) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 㐬.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): lau4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liù
- Min Dong (BUC): liù
- Min Nan (POJ): lâu / liû
- Wu (Wiktionary): lieu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: liu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
- IPA (key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lau4
- Yale: làuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: lau4
- IPA (key): /lɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liù
- Hakka Romanization System: liuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: liu2
- IPA: /li̯u¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: liù
- IPA (key): /l̃ieu⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâu / liû
- Tâi-lô: lâu / liû
- Phofsit Daibuun: laau, liuu
- IPA (Xiamen): /laʊ²⁴/, /liu²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /laʊ²⁴/, /liu²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /laʊ¹³/, /liu¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /laʊ²⁴/, /liu²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /laʊ²³/, /liu²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: lieu (T3)
- IPA (key): /liɜ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 流 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力求切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/lɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/liu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/liəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/luw/ |
| Li Rong |
/liu/ |
| Wang Li |
/lĭəu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/li̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
liú |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 流 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
liú |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ljuw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*ru/ |
| English | flow (v.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 流 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8335 |
| Phonetic component |
流 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
劉 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ru/ |
| Notes | 或爲毓省聲 |
Definitions
流
Compounds
Derived terms from 流
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Japanese
Kanji
流
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Readings
Compounds
- 流派 (ryūha): school of thought
Korean
Hanja
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Vietnamese
Han character
流 (lưu)
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