裸

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 衤 (“cloth”) + phonetic 果 – lacking clothes, naked.

Han character

裸 (radical 145 衣+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中田木 (LWD), four-corner 3629₄)

1. bare, nude
2. undress, strip

References

• KangXi: page 1119, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34371
• Dae Jaweon: page 1585, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3098, character 7
• Unihan data for U+88F8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

裸 (Yale lo2)

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Japanese

Kanji

裸 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ら (ra)
• Kun: はだか (hadaka)

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Korean

Hanja

裸 (hangeul 라>나, 야, revised ra>na, ya, McCune-Reischauer ra>na, ya, Yale la>na, ya)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

裸 (pinyin dū (du1), luǒ (luo3), Wade-Giles tu¹, lo³)

Compounds

• 赤裸 (chìluǒ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

裸 (lỏa, khoả, loã)