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類

類

See also: 类

Translingual

Han character

類 (radical 181 頁+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火大一月金 (FKMBC), four-corner 91486, composition ⿰⿱米犬頁)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 1408, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43608
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1926, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4387, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+985E

Chinese

trad. 類
simp. 类

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (頪) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘱 *ruːls, *ruds
纇 *ruːls
類 *ruːls, *ruds
頪 *roːds
禷 *ruds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ruːls, *ruds) : phonetic 頪 ‎(OC *roːds) + semantic 犬.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 類
Mandarin Beijing /lei⁵¹/
Harbin /lei⁵³/
Tianjin /lei⁵³/
Jinan /luei²¹/
Qingdao /le⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luei³¹²/
Xi'an /luei⁴⁴/
Xining /luɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /luei¹³/
Lanzhou /luei¹³/
Ürümqi /luei²¹³/
Wuhan /nei³⁵/
Chengdu /nuei¹³/
Guiyang /nuei²¹³/
Kunming /nuei²¹²/
Nanjing /luəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /le⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /luei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /luei³⁵/
Hohhot /luei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /le²³/
Suzhou /le̞³¹/
Hangzhou /lei¹³/
Wenzhou /løy²²/
Hui Shexian /le²²/
/ly²²/
Tunxi /lə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /lei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /nəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /lui²¹/
Hakka Meixian /lui⁵³/
Taoyuan /lui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²²/
Nanning /lui²²/
Hong Kong /løy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lui²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /luɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ly⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lui³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lui³³/
Rime
Character 類
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力遂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwiH/
Li
Rong		 /luiH/
Wang
Li		 /lwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 類
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lèi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]u[t]-s/
English category

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 類 類
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7770 7772
Phonetic
component		 頪 頪
Rime
group		 微 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 纇 類
Old
Chinese		 /*ruːls/ /*ruds/

Definitions

類

  1. class; group; kind; category

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

類

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

類 • ‎(ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune-Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

類 (loại, loài, nòi)

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