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Translingual

Han character

(radical 93 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十竹手 (JHQ), four-corner 30502, composition)

  1. prison
  2. stable, pen
  3. secure

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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ruː
*ruː
*ruː

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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/
/lau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lao⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7644
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ruː/

Definitions

  1. prison
  2. firm

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. prison
  2. stablepen
  3. secure

Readings

Kanji in this term
ろう
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana ろう, romaji , historical hiragana らう)

  1. prison

Synonyms

References

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

(roe, noe, ro, no) (hangeul , , , , revised roe, noe, ro, no, McCune-Reischauer roe, noe, ro, no, Yale loy, noy, lo, no)

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Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana るー, romaji )

Noun

(hiragana るー, romaji )

  1. prison

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”), 1963

Vietnamese

Han character

(lao, lào, sao, sau)

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