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羸

羸

Translingual

Han character

羸 (radical 123 羊+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓廿手 (YNTQ), four-corner 0021₇)

weak, lean, emaciated, exhausted

References

KangXi: page 954, character 24

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28583

Dae Jaweon: page 1399, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2122, character 19

Unihan data for U+7FB8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		羸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羸
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (蠃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
驘	*roːl
鸁	*roːl
蠃	roːl, roːlʔ
臝	*roːlʔ
羸	*rol

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): léi (lei²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: léi
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˊ
  - Wade-Giles: lei²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lei
  - IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: leoi⁴
  - Yale: lèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: /liuᴇ/▼

Rime
Character	羸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwiə̆/
Li Rong	/liue/
Wang Li	/lǐwe/
Bernard Karlgren	/lwie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	léi

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]o[j]/

(Zhengzhang): /*rol/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羸	羸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	léi	léi
Middle Chinese	‹ ljwe ›	‹ ljwe ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]o[j]/	/*[r]o[j]/
English	emaciated; weak	entangle
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	羸
Reading #	1/1
No.	8693
Phonetic component	蠃
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	羸
Old Chinese	/*rol/

Definitions

羸

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Compounds

孱羸
尪羸
弊車羸馬／弊车羸马
羸兵
羸劣

羸師／羸师
羸弱
羸瘠
羸瘦

羸瘵
羸露
羸頓／羸顿
老羸

Japanese

Kanji

羸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: るい (rui)

Kun: つかれる (tsukareru), よわい (yowai)

Korean

Hanja

羸 • ‎(ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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