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聾

聾

See also: 聋

Translingual

Han character

聾 (radical 128 耳+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜心尸十 (YPSJ), four-corner 01401, composition ⿱龍耳)

  1. deaf

References

  • KangXi: page 970, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29212
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1422, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2800, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+807E

Chinese

trad. 聾
simp. 聋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (龍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
驡 *ʔslaːŋʔ, *roŋ
龐 *broːŋ
瀧 *rroːŋ, *sroːŋ, *roːŋ
籠 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *roŋ
豅 *roːŋ
朧 *roːŋ, *roŋs
龓 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
聾 *roːŋ
礱 *roːŋ, *roːŋs
嚨 *roːŋ
蘢 *roːŋ, *roŋ
櫳 *roːŋ
襱 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *r'oŋʔ
瓏 *roːŋ
曨 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
鸗 *roːŋ, *roŋ
蠪 *roːŋ
巃 *roːŋʔ
竉 *roːŋʔ
攏 *roːŋʔ
儱 *roːŋʔ, *roŋs
龍 *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ
躘 *roŋ, *roŋs
隴 *roŋʔ
壠 *roŋʔ
壟 *roŋʔ
寵 *r̥ʰoŋʔ
龏 *kloŋ, *kloŋs, *qroːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 聾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /luŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /luŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /luŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /luŋ/
Wang
Li		 /luŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /luŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 聾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ luwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.rˤoŋ/
English deaf

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 聾
Reading # 1/1
No. 8417
Phonetic
component		 龍
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 籠
Old
Chinese		 /*roːŋ/

Adjective

聾

  1. deaf

Usage notes

  • 聾／聋 can be used as a stand-alone adjective. However, the term 耳聾／耳聋 (ěrlóng) may occasionally be used instead due to homophony with 龍／龙 (lóng, “dragon”).

Synonyms

Compounds

See also

  • 盲 (máng, “blind”), 啞／哑 (yǎ, “mute”)

Japanese

Kanji

聾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 聾唖

Korean

Hanja

聾 • ‎(rong>nong) (hangeul 롱>농, revised rong>nong, McCune-Reischauer rong>nong, Yale long>nong)

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