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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)

  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. 婁
simp. 娄

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 母 ‎(“mother”) + 中 + 女 ‎(“daughter”).

Pronunciation

Rime
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)
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;
* 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 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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. tie

Readings

Korean

Hanja

婁 • ‎(ru) (hangeul 루, revised ru, McCune-Reischauer ru, Yale lwu)

  1. a constellation
  2. to wear

Vietnamese

Han character

婁 (lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ)

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