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硫
硫
Translingual
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 石 + phonetic 㐬.
Han character
硫 (radical 112 石+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一口卜戈山 (MRYIU), four-corner 10613, composition ⿰石㐬)
References
- KangXi: page 831, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24229
- Dae Jaweon: page 1247, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2435, character 1
- Unihan data for U+786B
Chinese
| simp. and trad. | 硫 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: liu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
- IPA (key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
 
 
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
-  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+- Jyutping: lau4
- Yale: làuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: lau4
- IPA (key): /lɐu̯²¹/
 
 
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 硫 | 
| 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 | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 硫 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 8336 | 
| Phonetic component | 流 | 
| Rime group | 幽 | 
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime | 劉 | 
| Old Chinese | /*ru/ | 
Definitions
硫
Japanese
Kanji
硫
Readings
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