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縷

縷

See also: 缕

Translingual

Han character

縷 (radical 120 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火中中女 (VFLLV), four-corner 25944, composition ⿰糹婁)

  1. thread
  2. detailed, precise

References

  • KangXi: page 936, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27832
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1375, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3442, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7E37

Chinese

trad. 縷
simp. 缕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 縷
Mandarin Beijing /ly²¹⁴/
Harbin /ly²¹³/
/ly⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ly¹³/
Jinan /ly⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ly⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ly⁵³/
Xi'an /ly⁵³/
Xining /l̩ʷ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ly⁵³/
Lanzhou /ly⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ly⁵¹/
Wuhan /ny⁴²/
Chengdu /nəu⁵³/
Guiyang /nəu⁴²/ 老
/ni⁴²/ 新
Kunming /ləu⁵³/
Nanjing /ly²¹²/
Hefei /zz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ly⁵³/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ly⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ly²³/
Suzhou /ly³¹/
Hangzhou /lei⁵³/
Wenzhou /løy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ly³⁵/
Tunxi /li³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ləu⁴¹/
Xiangtan /nəɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /leu³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²³/
Nanning /ly²⁴/
Hong Kong /løy²³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ly³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ly²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lɔu²¹³/
Rime
Character 縷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力主切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /luə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /lioX/
Wang
Li		 /lĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lǚ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lǚ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]oʔ/
English thread

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 縷
Reading # 1/1
No. 8496
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 縷
Old
Chinese		 /*roʔ/

Definitions

縷

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Japanese

Kanji

縷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

縷 • ‎(ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune-Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縷 (lũ, lụa, lũ, lú)

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