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婁
婁
See also: 娄
Translingual
Alternative forms
𡞔
Han character
婁 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV), four-corner 50404, composition ⿳毋中女)
- used as a surname
- the Chinese constellation Lóu ("Bond"), one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of traditional Chinese astronomy
- to wear
Derived characters
- 僂 (偻) 塿 (𪣻) 摟 (搂) 嘍 (喽) 嶁 (嵝) 漊 (溇) 慺 樓 (楼) 㺏 (𤠋) 膢 (𦝼) 熡 (𤋏) 瞜 (䁖) 褸 (褛) 耬 (耧) 螻 (蝼) 艛 縷 (缕) 軁 貗 (𫎌) 謱 (𫍴) 䝏 鏤 (镂) 鞻 髏 (髅) 甊 氀 數 (数) 鷜 蔞 (蒌) 寠 (𪧘) 窶 (窭) 簍 (篓) 廔 屢 (屡) 瘻 (瘘) 屨 (屦) 遱 (𫐷)
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. | 婁 | |
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simp. | 娄 |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: lou2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
- IPA (key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lau4
- Yale: làuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: lau4
- IPA (key): /lɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Rime | ||
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Character | 婁 | 婁 |
Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 侯 (137) |
Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
Division (等) | III | I |
Fanqie | 力朱切 | 落侯切 |
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 |
lǘ | lóu |
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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Character | 婁 |
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; |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
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Character | 婁 | 婁 |
Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
No. | 8457 | 8493 |
Phonetic component |
婁 | 婁 |
Rime group |
侯 | 侯 |
Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
Corresponding MC rime |
樓 | 慺 |
Old Chinese |
/*ɡ·roː/ | /*ɡ·ro/ |
Definitions
婁
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Japanese
Kanji
婁
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Korean
Hanja
婁 • (ru) (hangeul 루, revised ru, McCune-Reischauer ru, Yale lwu)
- a constellation
- to wear