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浬

浬

See also: 里

Translingual

Han character

浬 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水田土 (EWG), four-corner 36114)

  1. nautical mile

References

  • KangXi: page 624, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17485
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1623, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6D6C

Cantonese

Hanzi

浬 ‎(Yale lei5)

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Japanese

Kanji

浬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. nautical mile (unit of distance)
  2. knot (unit of speed)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
浬
り
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Probably from Middle Chinese 浬. The 浬 character does not appear in ancient texts.

Pronunciation

Noun

浬 ‎(hiragana り, romaji ri)

  1. a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
浬
かいり
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

From Middle Chinese compound 海里 ‎(xojX liX, literally “sea, ocean + unit of distance”). The single-kanji spelling 浬 is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation

Noun

浬 ‎(hiragana かいり, romaji kairi)

  1. a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
浬
のっと
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

From English knot ‎(unit of speed). The kanji spelling 浬 is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) ノ​ット [nóꜜttò] (Atamadaka - [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [no̞t̚to̞]

Alternative forms

Noun

浬 ‎(katakana ノット, romaji notto)

  1. a knot: a nautical unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour
Usage notes

The katakana spelling ノット is more common in modern Japanese than either kanji spelling of 浬 or 節.

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

浬 • ‎(ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

浬 ‎(Pinyin lǐ (li3), Wade-Giles li3)

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Vietnamese

Han character

浬 (lí, rí)

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