Definify.com

Definition 2024


See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 122 +14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中女火土 (WLVFG), four-corner 60914, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 950, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28397
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2928, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7F85

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*raːl
*raːl
*raːl
*raːl
*raːl
*raːl, *raːlʔ
*raːl
*raːl
*raːl, *raːls

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (net) +  (bird).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /luo³⁵/
Harbin /luo²⁴/
Tianjin /luo⁴⁵/
Jinan /luə⁴²/
Qingdao /luə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luo⁴²/
Xi'an /luo²⁴/
Xining /lu²⁴/
Yinchuan /luə⁵³/
Lanzhou /luə⁵³/
Ürümqi /luɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /nuo²¹³/
Chengdu /no³¹/
Guiyang /no²¹/
Kunming /lo³¹/
Nanjing /lo²⁴/
Hefei /lʊ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /lɤ¹¹/
Pingyao /lei¹³/
Hohhot /luɤ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /lu²³/
Suzhou /ləu¹³/
Hangzhou /lo²¹³/
Wenzhou /lɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /lo⁴⁴/
Tunxi /lo⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /lo¹³/
Xiangtan /no¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lo⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lo¹¹/
Taoyuan /lo¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lɔ²¹/
Nanning /lɔ²¹/
Hong Kong /lɔ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lo³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /lo⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /lɔ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lo⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lo³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/la/
Li
Rong
/lɑ/
Wang
Li
/lɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
luó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
luó
Middle
Chinese
‹ la ›
Old
Chinese
/*rˤaj/
English a kind of net (on a handle?) (Shuōwén: "bird net")

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. 8676
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*raːl/
Notes

Definitions

  1. net for catching birds
  2. gauze
  3. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk
  2. (Abbreviation) Latin (language)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana , romaji ra)

  1. lightweight fabric

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(ra>na) (hangeul >, McCune-Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

  1. La, Old Korean dynasty, spreading something, silk fabric, netting for catching, sieving, spiral, net

Vietnamese

Han character

  1. to be

References