羅

See also 罗

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 网 (“net”) + 維 (“bird”)

Han character

羅 (radical 122 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中女火土 (WLVFG), four-corner 6091₄)

1. net for catching birds
2. gauze
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 950, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2928, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F85

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Cantonese

Hanzi

羅 (simplified 罗, Yale lo4)

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Japanese

Kanji

羅 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ら (ra)
• Kun: あみ (ami), つらねる (tsuraneru), うすもの (usumono)

Compounds

• 羅針盤 (らしんばん, ラシンバン, rashinban): a compass
• 羅針儀 (らしんぎ, ラシンギ, rashingi): a compass

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Korean

Hanja

羅 (hangeul 라>나, revised ra>na, McCune-Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

羅 (simplified 罗, pinyin luó (luo2), Wade-Giles lo²)

Compounds

• 紫羅蘭

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Vietnamese

Han character

羅 (la, là)