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Translingual

Han character

(radical 44 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸中中女 (SLLV), four-corner 77244, composition)

  1. frequently, often, again and again

References

  • KangXi: page 303, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7787
  • Dae Jaweon: page 601, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 979, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5C62

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

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ly²¹⁴/
Harbin /ly²¹³/
Tianjin /luei¹³/
/ly¹³/
Jinan /ly⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ly⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ly⁵³/
Xi'an /luei⁵³/
Xining /l̩ʷ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ly⁵³/
Lanzhou /ly¹³/
Ürümqi /luei⁵¹/
Wuhan /ny⁴²/
Chengdu /nuei⁵³/
/nəu⁵³/
Guiyang /luei⁴²/
/li⁴²/
Kunming /luei⁵³/
Nanjing /ly²¹²/
Hefei /zz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ly⁵³/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ly⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ly²³/
Suzhou /li³¹/
Hangzhou /lei⁵³/
Wenzhou /løy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ly³⁵/
Tunxi /li³¹/
Xiang Changsha /lei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /nəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /li²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /lui⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /lui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²³/
Nanning /lui²⁴/
Hong Kong /løy¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lu²²/
/lu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ly³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ly²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lu⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lɔu²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/lioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/luə̆H/
Li
Rong
/lioH/
Wang
Li
/lĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]o(ʔ)-s/
English frequently

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. 8505
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ros/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 屢仆屢起屡仆屡起
  • 屢出新招屡出新招
  • 屢屢屡屡 (lǚlǚ)
  • 屢年屡年
  • 屢戰屢勝屡战屡胜
  • 屢戰屢敗屡战屡败
  • 屢敗屢戰屡败屡战
  • 屢教不改屡教不改 (lǚjiàobùgǎi)
  • 屢次屡次 (lǚcì)
  • 屢次三番屡次三番
  • 屢盟屡盟
  • 屢空屡空
  • 屢見不鮮屡见不鲜
  • 屢試不爽屡试不爽
  • 簞瓢屢空箪瓢屡空

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. often
  3. again & again

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. many
  2. often
  3. frequently
  4. again and again

Vietnamese

Han character

(lũ, , , rũ, luã, rủ)

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