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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 157 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹水口 (RMHER), four-corner 67164, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1225, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37524
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1697, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3704, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8DEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰraːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿 *ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
*klaːɡ
*kʰlaːɡ
*kʰaːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ
*ɡ·raɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ɡraːɡ
*ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːɡs) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *klaːɡ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/luoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/luoH/
Shao
Rongfen
/loH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɔH/
Li
Rong
/loH/
Wang
Li
/luH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/luoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3856
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·raːɡs/

Definitions

  1. road, path, street
  2. pattern, arrangement
  3. way, method
  4. journey
  5. route
  6. kind, type
  7. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.[1] May be cognate with Korean (gil, “road”).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -chi)

  1. (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
    This usage has generally been replaced by -ji below.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Derived as a sound shift from chi above.[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -ji)

  1. a road, a street
     (やま) () (なが) ()
    yama-ji, naga-ji
    a mountain road, a long road
  2. attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
    奈良 (なら) ()
    Nara-ji
    Road to Nara
  3. attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time
    四日 (よっか) ()
    yokka-ji
    a trip of four days, a four-day-long trip

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
みち
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of (mi, honorific prefix) + (chi, road, street, way).[1] The prefix mi was in reference to the (kami, god or spirit) of roads.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana みち, romaji michi)

  1. a way, a street, a road, an alley, a path, a pass for local traffic
  2. a way of doing something

References

  1. 1 2 3 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(ro>no) (hangeul >, revised ro>no, McCune-Reischauer ro>no, Yale lo>no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lộ, lọ, lồ, lựa, trọ, trò, lần)

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