溜

See also 霤

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 留 – to slip on water.

Han character

溜 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水竹竹田 (EHHW), four-corner 3716₂, composition ⿰氵留)

1. slide, glide, slip
2. slippery

References

• KangXi: page 639, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17943
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1703, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6E9C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

溜 (jyutping lau1, lau4, lau6, liu1, Yale lau1, lau4, lau6, liu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

溜

Readings

• On: りゅう (ryū)
• Kun: したたる (shitataru), ためる (tameru), たまる (tamaru)

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Korean

Hanja

溜 (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune-Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

溜 (pinyin liū (liu1), Wade-Giles liu¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

溜 (lưu, lựu, rượu)