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Translingual

Han character

(radical 112 +15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 一口女戈木 (MRVID), four-corner 12694)

  1. gravel, pebbles

References

  • KangXi: page 838, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24572
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1255, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2463, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+792B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
*raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
*pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
*raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
*rawɢ, *reːwɢ
*qʰljawɢ
*qʰljawɢ
*lawɢ
*lawɢ, *reːwɢ
*lawɢ
*reːwɢ
*reːwɢ
*reːwɢ
*reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
*qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/lek̚/
Wang
Li
/liek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤewk/
English pebbles

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7685
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*reːwɢ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 土礫土砾
  • 沙礫沙砾
  • 瓦礫瓦砾 (wǎlì)
  • 石礫石砾
  • 砂礫砂砾
  • 砂礫礦床砂砾矿床
  • 磧礫碛砾
  • 礫岩砾岩 (lìyán)
  • 礫石砾石
  • 礫耕栽培砾耕栽培
  • 角礫岩角砾岩 (jiǎolìyán)
  • 飛沙揚礫飞沙扬砾
  • 飛沙走礫飞沙走砾
  • 飛砂揚礫飞砂扬砾
  • 飛礫飞砾

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana れき, romaji reki)

  1. gravel

(hiragana こいし, romaji koishi)

  1. small stone, pebble

Korean

Hanja

(ryeok>yeok) (hangeul 력>, revised ryeok>yeok, McCune-Reischauer ryŏk>yŏk, Yale lyek>yek)

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