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蘿

蘿

See also: 萝

Translingual

Han character

蘿 (radical 140 艸+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中土 (TWLG), four-corner 44914, composition ⿱艹羅)

  1. (botany) Creeping or trailing plants.

References

  • KangXi: page 1071, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1538, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3336, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+863F

Chinese

trad. 蘿
simp. 萝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (羅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羅 *raːl
蘿 *raːl
籮 *raːl
儸 *raːl
饠 *raːl
欏 *raːl, *raːlʔ
囉 *raːl
鑼 *raːl
邏 *raːl, *raːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːl) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 羅 ‎(OC *raːl).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蘿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 魯何切
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蘿
Reading # 1/1
No. 8677
Phonetic
component		 羅
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 羅
Old
Chinese		 /*raːl/

Definitions

蘿

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

蘿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
蘿
かげ
Hyōgaiji
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [ka̠ɡ̃e̞]

Noun

蘿 ‎(hiragana かげ, romaji kage)

  1. wolf's-foot clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum)

Synonyms

  • (wolf's-foot clubmoss): 日陰 (ひかげ)の蔓 (かずら) ‎(hikage no kazura), 日陰草 (ひかげぐさ) ‎(hikagegusa), 山蔓 (やまかずら) ‎(yamakazura), 山蔓陰 (やまかずらかげ) ‎(yamakazurakage), 玉蔭 (たまかげ) ‎(tamakage)

Korean

Hanja

蘿 • ‎(ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, revised ra>na, McCune-Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蘿 (la, lá)

  1. leaf

Compounds

  • 𩇢蘿𣘃 ‎(xanh lá cây)

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for leaf is lá.
  • This character only means leaf in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning. 葉 means silver in Chinese and Japanese.
  • This is the regular form of this character. The common form is 𦲿.

References

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