婁

See also: 娄

Translingual

Alternative forms

𡞔

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”)

Han character

婁 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV), four-corner 5040₄, composition ⿳毋中女)

1. used as a surname
2. the Chinese constellation Lóu ("Bond"), one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of traditional Chinese astronomy
3. to wear

Derived characters

• 褸 (褛) (窭) 鏤 (镂) 髏 (髅) 窶 (窭)

References

• KangXi: page 263, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6383
• Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1058, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5A41

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Chinese

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trad.		婁
simp.		娄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóu (lou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lou²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
    • IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (婁, reconstructed)
Character (婁), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力朱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨo/	/li̯u/	/lio/	/lio/	/luə̆/	/lĭu/	/lio/
Character (婁), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 落侯切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ləu/	/lə̯u/	/lu/	/ləu/	/ləw/	/ləu/	/ləu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (婁, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
婁								lóu								‹ lju ›								/*[r]o/								drag, trail (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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
婁					8457					婁					侯					0					樓					/*ɡ·roː/
婁					8493					婁					侯					0					慺					/*ɡ·ro/

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Japanese

Kanji

婁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ろう (rō), る (ru), るい (rui)
• Kun: むなしい (munashii), あらい (arai), おさめる (osameru)

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Korean

Hanja

婁 (ru) (hangeul 루, revised ru, McCune-Reischauer ru, Yale lwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婁 (lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ)

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