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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金中中女 (CLLV), four-corner 85144)

  1. carve, inlay, engrave, tattoo

References

  • KangXi: page 1320, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40820
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1820, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4248, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+93E4

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·roː
*roː, *ro
*roː
*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
*roː
*roː
*roː, *ro, *roʔ
*roː
*ɡ·roː
*roː, *ro
*roː
*roː, *roːʔ
*roː, *ro
*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
*roː, *ro, *roʔ
*roː, *ro
*roː, *roʔ
*roː
*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːʔ
*roːʔ
*roːʔ, *roʔ
*roːs, *ro
*roːs, *ro
*sloːʔ
*sloːʔ
*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
*ro
*roʔ
*ros
*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
*klos
*ɡloʔ
*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (24) (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨo/ /ləuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lio/ /ləuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/lio/ /ləuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/luə̆/ /ləwH/
Li
Rong
/lio/ /luH/
Wang
Li
/lĭu/ /ləuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯u/ /lə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ luwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤo-s/
English carve

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. 8480 8492
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*roːs/ /*ro/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 刻鏤刻镂
  • 刻鏤刀刻镂刀
  • 刻骨鏤心刻骨镂心
  • 吹影鏤塵吹影镂尘
  • 彫章鏤句彫章镂句
  • 炊沙鏤冰炊沙镂冰
  • 畫脂鏤冰画脂镂冰
  • 精雕細鏤精雕细镂
  • 虯鏤亮槅虬镂亮槅
  • 金鏤金镂
  • 金鏤梅科金镂梅科
  • 金鏤玉衣金镂玉衣
  • 鈒鏤鈒镂
  • 銗鏤銗镂
  • 銘心鏤骨铭心镂骨
  • 銘肌鏤骨铭肌镂骨
  • 錯彩鏤金错彩镂金
  • 鏤冰镂冰
  • 鏤冰雕朽镂冰雕朽
  • 鏤刻镂刻
  • 鏤塵吹影镂尘吹影
  • 鏤彩摛文镂彩摛文
  • 鏤心刻骨镂心刻骨
  • 鏤月裁雲镂月裁云
  • 鏤榜镂榜
  • 鏤版镂版 (lòubǎn)
  • 鏤空镂空
  • 鏤花镂花
  • 鏤身镂身
  • 鏤金錯采镂金错采
  • 鏤骨銘心镂骨铭心
  • 鏤骨銘肌镂骨铭肌
  • 雕章鏤句雕章镂句
  • 雕肝鏤腎雕肝镂肾
  • 雕蚶鏤蛤雕蚶镂蛤
  • 雕鏤雕镂

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(ru>nu) (hangeul >, revised ru>nu, McCune-Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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