耒

See also: 未 and 禾

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a wooden (木) plow with originally three cross lines (彡) for the furrows of the plow, later simplified to two.

耒	耒
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

耒 (radical 127 耒+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 手木 (QD), four-corner 5090₀)

1. handle of plow
2. plow
3. rad. 127

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/耒

References

• KangXi: page 962, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28898
• Dae Jaweon: page 1410, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2770, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8012

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		耒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěi, máo, mào (lei³, mao², mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ, ㄇㄠˊ, ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶, loi⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): lói
• Min Nan (POJ): lúi / lūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
    • Wade-Giles: lei³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
    • IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: máo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mau
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶, loi⁶
    • Yale: leuih, loih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loei⁶, loi⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/, /lɔːi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lói
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /lo̯i³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lúi / lūi
    • Tâi-lô: luí / luī
    • IPA (Taipei): /lui⁴¹/, /lui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lui⁵³/, /lui²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (耒, reconstructed)
Character (耒), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 力軌切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liuɪX/	/lwiX/	/luiX/	/lʷiX/	/lwiX/	/lwiX/	/ljuɪX/
Character (耒), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 灰 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 盧對切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/luʌiH/	/luɑ̆iH/	/luᴀiH/	/luoiH/	/lwəjH/	/luɒiH/	/luɒiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (耒, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
耒					7761					耒					微					2					纇					/*ruːls/
耒					7764					耒					微					2					壘					/*rulʔ/

References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

耒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: らい (rai), るい (rui)
• Kun: すき (suki)

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Korean

Hanja

耒 (roe, noe) (hangeul 뢰, 뇌, revised roe, noe, McCune-Reischauer roe, noe, Yale loy, noy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: lỗi, lồi, doi, lọi, lội, lòi, rồi, ròi, lẫn, rổi, rỗi, rủi

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