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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水尸一月 (ESMB), four-corner 37127, composition)

  1. leak, drip
  2. funnel
  3. hourglass

References

  • KangXi: page 645, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1054, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1731, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6F0F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*roːs
*roːs
*roːs

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /lou⁵¹/
Harbin /lou⁵³/
Tianjin /lou⁵³/
Jinan /lou²¹/
Qingdao /lou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /lou³¹²/
Xi'an /lou⁴⁴/
Xining /lɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /ləu¹³/
Lanzhou /lou¹³/
Ürümqi /lɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /nəu³⁵/
Chengdu /nəu¹³/
Guiyang /ləu²¹³/
Kunming /ləu²¹²/
Nanjing /ləɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /lɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ləu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ləu³⁵/
Hohhot /ləu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /lɤ²³/
Suzhou /lɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /lei¹³/
Wenzhou /lau²²/
Hui Shexian /liu²²/
Tunxi /liu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ləu⁵⁵/
/ləu¹¹/
Xiangtan /nəɯ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /lɛu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /leu⁵³/
Taoyuan /leu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lɐu²²/
Nanning /lɐu²²/
Hong Kong /lɐu²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /lɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /le⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lau³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lau²³/ ~雨
/lau³⁵/ 排水

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ləuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ləuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ləuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ləwH/
Li
Rong
/luH/
Wang
Li
/ləuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ luwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[Nə-r]ˤok-s/
English leak (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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8514
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*roːs/

Definitions

  1. to leak
  2. to leave out, to omit

Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to leak
  2. to escape

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(ru>nu) (hangeul >, revised ru>nu, McCune-Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lậu, lâu, làu, lạu)

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