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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 76 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓人 (ONNO), four-corner 87280, composition)

  1. songs

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*low, *lo
*l̥ʰoː
*l̥ʰoː, *lo
*l̥ʰoː
*l'oː, *slo
*l'oː, *l'os, *lo
*l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
*l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
*l'oː, *lo
*l̥ʰus, *lo
*slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
*sro
*hljo, *hljos
*hljo, *lo
*hljos
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo, *los
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo, *loʔ
*lo
*lo
*loʔ
*loʔ
*los
*los

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (36) (7)
Final () (24) (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨo/ /dəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/jio/ /dəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/io/ /dəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juə̆/ /dəw/
Li
Rong
/io/ /du/
Wang
Li
/jĭu/ /dəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯u/ /dʱə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ duw ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤo/
English a kind of song

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. 15838 15867
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'oː/ /*lo/

Definitions

  1. (literary) song
  2. (literary) happy; joyful