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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 田田田火 (WWWF), four-corner 60903, composition)

  1. bind, wind about
  2. link, join

References

  • KangXi: page 942, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28039
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3466, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7E8D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*roːl, *roːls
*roːl
*roːl
*roːl, *rul
*roːl, *rul
*roːlʔ
*ruːl, *ruːls
*ruːl
*ruːl, *ruːls
*ruːl, *ruːls
*ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
*ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
*ruːl, *rul, *ruls
*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
*ruːl
*ruːl
*ruːl, *rulʔ
*ruːl
*ruːlʔ
*ruːlʔ
*ruːlʔ
*ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols
*ruːls, *rul
*rolʔ, *rul
*rul, *rulʔ
*rul
*rul, *ruls
*rul
*rul
*rulʔ
*rulʔ
*rulʔ
*rulʔ
*rulʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rul, *ruls) : phonetic  (OC *ruːl) + semantic  (Old Chinese: *rul).

From the same source also came (< , *ruːl), (*ruːl). Triplicate, analogously also the cognates (*ruːlʔ), (*rulʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (16) (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liuɪ/ /liuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lʷi/ /lʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljuɪ/ /ljuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lwi/ /lwiH/
Li
Rong
/lui/ /luiH/
Wang
Li
/lwi/ /lwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lwi/ /lwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
léi lèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
léi
Middle
Chinese
‹ lwij ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]uj/
English to wind around, bind

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 7741 7754
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rul/ /*ruls/
Notes

Verb

  1. to bind
    /    qiānlèi   tied down by affairs
  2. to involve, to implicate
    /    liánlèi   to involve
    /    tuōlèi   to implicate

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ryu>yu) (hangeul >, revised ryu>yu, McCune-Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References