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髏

髏

See also: 髅

Translingual

Han character

髏 (radical 188 骨+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月月中中女 (BBLLV), four-corner 75244, composition ⿰骨婁)

  1. skull
  2. skeleton

References

  • KangXi: page 1450, character 44
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4417, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9ACF

Chinese

trad. 髏
simp. 髅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 髏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ləu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ləu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləw/
Li
Rong		 /lu/
Wang
Li		 /ləu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lóu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 髏
Reading # 1/1
No. 8459
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 樓
Old
Chinese		 /*roː/

Definitions

髏

  1. Only used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”).

Japanese

Kanji

髏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

髏 • ‎(ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune-Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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