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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人一弓 (LIOMN), four-corner 58121, composition)

  1. snail

References

  • KangXi: page 1089, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33261
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2872, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8753

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 # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/jio/
Shao
Rongfen
/io/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juə̆/
Li
Rong
/io/
Wang
Li
/jĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ zyu ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.lo/
English snail

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 # 1/1
No. 15862
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lo/

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul , revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Compounds