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Translingual

Han character

(radical 124 +5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸一人竹竹 (SMOHH), four-corner 17202, composition)

  1. the sound of the wind
  2. to soar

References

  • KangXi: page 956, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28665
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1401, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3345, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7FCF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ruːw
*ruːw, *rɯːws
*ɡ·ruːw, *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw
賿 *rrɯːw, *rrɯːwʔ
*rrɯːw
*krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw
*krɯːw
*krɯːw, *rɯw
*riw, *rɯːw
*riws, *rɯːw, *rɯwʔ
*rɯːw, *rɯːws, *rɯws
*rɯːw, *rɯw
*rɯːw
*rɯːw
*ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws
*rɯːw, *rɯːwɢ
*rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ
*rɯːwʔ
*mɡlɯw, *rɯwɢs, *mɡrɯw, *ɡrɯw
*mlɯw, *mɡrɯw, *mrɯws, *mlɯwɢ
*rɯw, *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
*rɯw
*rɯw, *rɯws
*rɯw, *rɯw
*rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
*r̥ʰɯw
*ɡlɯw, *ɡrɯw
*mrɯws
*ɡ·rɯw, *ɡrɯw, *ɡrɯwʔ
*krɯw
*ruːwɢ, *rɯwɢ
*rɯwɢ
*rɯwɢ
*rɯwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (93) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leu/ /lɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/leu/ /liuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/leu/ /liəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛw/ /luwH/
Li
Rong
/leu/ /liuH/
Wang
Li
/lieu/ /lĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieu/ /li̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liáo liù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
liù
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]iw-s/
English flying high (no pre-Han text)

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. 8363 8385
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·rɯːw/ /*ɡ·rɯws/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. the sound of the wind
  2. to soar

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ryo) (hangeul , revised ryo, McCune-Reischauer ryo, Yale lyo)

  1. to fly high
  2. the sound of the wind