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Alternative forms

𡞔

Han character

(radical 38 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV), four-corner 50404, composition)

  1. used as a surname
  2. the Chinese constellation Lóu ("Bond"), one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of traditional Chinese astronomy
  3. to wear

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 263, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6383
  • Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1058, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5A41

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (mother) +  +  (daughter).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (24) (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨo/ /ləu/
Pan
Wuyun
/lio/ /ləu/
Shao
Rongfen
/lio/ /ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/luə̆/ /ləw/
Li
Rong
/lio/ /lu/
Wang
Li
/lĭu/ /ləu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯u/ /lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ lju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)

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. 8457 8493
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·roː/ /*ɡ·ro/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. tie

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ru) (hangeul , revised ru, McCune-Reischauer ru, Yale lwu)

  1. a constellation
  2. to wear

Vietnamese

Han character

(lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ)

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