咾

咾 U+54BE, 咾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54BE ← 咽 [U+54BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 咿 → [U+54BF]

Translingual

Han character

咾 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口十大心 (RJKP), four-corner 6401₁, composition ⿰口老)

1. a noise
2. a sound

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3578
• Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 612, character 6
• Unihan data for U+54BE

Chinese

trad.		咾
simp. #		咾

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 + phonetic 老

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎo (lao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵
• Jin (Wiktionary): lau²
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎo
    • Wade–Giles: lao³
    • Yale: lǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lao
    • Palladius: лао (lao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lou⁵
    • Yale: lóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: lau²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /lau⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶lau
    • MiniDict: lau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lɔ²³/

Definitions

咾

1. (Shanghainese) or
2. (Shanghainese) therefore
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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ló

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lo²

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló
    • Tâi-lô: ló
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loir
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lo⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lo⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lo²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ló
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo⁵²/

Definitions

咾

1. Only used in 呵咾 (o-ló).

Compounds

• 咕咾肉 (gūlǎoròu)

 

Japanese

Kanji

咾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)
• Kun: こえ (koe, 咾)^{←こゑ (kowe, 咾, historical)}

Vietnamese

Han character

咾: Hán Nôm readings: láo, rảu, làu

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