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柳

柳

Translingual

Han character

柳 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹竹中 (DHHL), four-corner 47920, composition ⿰木卯)

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 柳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卯 *mruːʔ
昴 *mruːʔ
泖 *mruːʔ
茆 *mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅 *m̥ʰruːs
窌 *m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊 *m·rɯːw
貿 *mlus
鄮 *mlus
劉 *m·ru
留 *m·ru, *m·rus
蒥 *m·ru
鶹 *m·ru
騮 *m·ru
榴 *m·ru
瑠 *ru
瘤 *m·ru, *m·rus
遛 *m·ru
鎦 *m·ru
飀 *m·ru
鰡 *m·ru
嵧 *m·ru
餾 *m·ru, *m·rus
瀏 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳 *m·ruʔ
珋 *m·ruʔ
罶 *m·ruʔ
嬼 *m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜 *m·rus
霤 *m·rus
廇 *m·rus
塯 *m·rus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *m·ruʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 卯 ‎(OC *mruːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 柳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /liəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /luwX/
Li
Rong		 /liuX/
Wang
Li		 /lĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 liǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 柳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*([m]ə.)ruʔ/
English willow

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 柳
Reading # 1/1
No. 8897
Phonetic
component		 卯
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 柳
Old
Chinese		 /*m·ruʔ/

Definitions

柳

  1. A member of the genus Salix: the willow.
  2. (astronomy) One of the constellations of the Twenty-Eight Mansions (二十八宿 (Èrshíbā Xiù)).
  3. A surname​.

References

Japanese

Kanji

柳

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

柳 ‎(hiragana やなぎ, katakana ヤナギ, romaji yanagi)

  1. willow (tree)

Proper noun

柳 ‎(hiragana やなぎ, romaji Yanagi)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

柳 • ‎(yu or ryu) (hangeul 유 or 류, revised yu or ryu, McCune-Reischauer yu or ryu, Yale yu or lyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柳 (liễu)

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