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笠
笠
Translingual
Han character
笠 (radical 118 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜廿 (HYT), four-corner 88108)
- bamboo hat
- bamboo covering
References
- KangXi: page 880, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25924
- Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2959, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7B20
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
笠 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 笠
| |
|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (立) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 涖 | *rɯːbs, *rɯbs |
| 莅 | *rɯbs, *rɯbs |
| 蒞 | *rɯbs |
| 位 | *ɢʷrɯbs |
| 拉 | *ruːb |
| 菈 | *ruːb |
| 颯 | *sluːb |
| 立 | *rɯb |
| 粒 | *rɯb |
| 笠 | *ɡ·rɯb |
| 砬 | *rɯb |
| 岦 | *rɯb |
| 苙 | *ɡ·rɯb, *ɡrɯb |
| 鴗 | *rɯb |
| 雴 | *r̥ʰɯb |
| 泣 | *kʰrɯb |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: lih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
- IPA (key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lap1, lap6
- Yale: lāp, lahp
- Cantonese Pinyin: lap7, lap9
- IPA (key): /lɐp̚⁵/, /lɐp̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍rh
- Tâi-lô: le̍rh
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ləʔ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Lukang, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: loe̍h
- Tâi-lô: lue̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: loeh
- IPA (Taipei): /lueʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍h
- Tâi-lô: le̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: leh
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /leʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /leʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Sanxia)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lerē
- Tâi-lô: lerē
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 笠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 緝 (141) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力入切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/liɪp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/lip̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ljep̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/lip̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/liəp̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/lĭĕp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/li̯əp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 笠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lip › |
| Old Chinese |
/*k.rəp/ |
| English | bamboo-splint hat |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 笠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7871 |
| Phonetic component |
立 |
| Rime group |
緝 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
立 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡ·rɯb/ |
Definitions
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Japanese
Kanji
笠
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