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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 149 +10, 17 strokes, cangjie input X卜口月人 (XYRBO) or 卜口月人山 (YRBOU), composition)

  1. sing
  2. folk song, ballad
  3. rumor

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1177, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35779
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4007, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8B21

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lews, *lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*luː
*lew
*lew, *lews
*lew
*lew
*lew
*lew
*ʔsloːwɢ

Pronunciation


Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. recitation; chanting
  2. noh chanting; a noh song

Readings