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牢
牢
Translingual
Han character
牢 (radical 93 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十竹手 (JHQ), four-corner 30502, composition ⿱宀牛)
References
- KangXi: page 698, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19934
- Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1802, character 6
- Unihan data for U+7262
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
牢 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 牢
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (牢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 牢 | *ruː |
| 窂 | *ruː |
| 哰 | *ruː |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˊ
- Wade-Giles: lao2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lau
- IPA (key): /lɑʊ̯³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lou4
- Yale: lòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: lou4
- IPA (key): /lou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô / tiâu
- Tâi-lô: lô / tiâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: looi, diaau
- IPA (Xiamen): /lɤ²⁴/, /tiaʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /lɤ²⁴/, /tiaʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɤ¹³/, /tiaʊ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴/, /tiaʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³/, /tiaʊ²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 牢 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /lɑu³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /lau²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /lɑu⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /lɔ⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /lɔ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /lau⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /lau²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /lɔ²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /lɔ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /lɔ⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /lɔ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /nau²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /nau³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /nao²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /lɔ³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /lɔo²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /lɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /lau¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /lɔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /lɔ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /lɔ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /læ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /lɔ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /lɜ³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /lɔ⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /lə⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /lau¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /naɯ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /lɑu⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /lau¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /lou²¹/ |
| Nanning | /lu²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /lou²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /lau³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /lo⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) |
/lau³³/ 名 /lau²¹/ 形 |
|
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /lao⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /lau³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 牢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 魯刀切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/lɑu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/lɑu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/lɑu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/law/ |
| Li Rong |
/lɑu/ |
| Wang Li |
/lɑu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/lɑu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
láo |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 牢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7644 |
| Phonetic component |
牢 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
勞 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ruː/ |
Definitions
牢
Japanese
Kanji
牢
Readings
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 牢 |
|
ろう Hyōgaiji |
| on'yomi |
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
牢 (hiragana ろう, romaji rō, historical hiragana らう)
Synonyms
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
牢 • (roe, noe, ro, no) (hangeul 뢰, 뇌, 로, 노, revised roe, noe, ro, no, McCune-Reischauer roe, noe, ro, no, Yale loy, noy, lo, no)
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