剅

Translingual

Han character

剅 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一廿中弓 (MTLN) or 難一廿中弓 (XMTLN), composition ⿰豆刂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1991
• Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 340, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5245

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		剅
alternative forms		𠞭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
侸	*toː
剅	*toː, *roː
郖	*toː, *doːs
鬪	*toːs
鋀	*tʰoː
頭	*doː
豆	*doːs
逗	*doːs, *dos
痘	*doːs
梪	*doːs
脰	*doːs
荳	*doːs
浢	*doːs
餖	*doːs
毭	*doːs
豎	*djoʔ
裋	*djoʔ
短	*toːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toː, *roː) : phonetic 豆 (OC *doːs) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóu (lou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lóu
    • Wade–Giles: lou²
    • Yale: lóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
    • Palladius: лоу (lou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: luw, tuw

Rime
Character	剅	剅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	落侯切	當侯切
Baxter	luw	tuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/	/təu/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/	/təu/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/	/təu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/	/təw/
Li Rong	/lu/	/tu/
Wang Li	/ləu/	/təu/
Bernard Karlgren	/lə̯u/	/tə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu	dōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau4	dau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toː/, /*roː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	剅	剅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2461	2476
Phonetic component	豆	豆
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	兠	樓
Old Chinese	/*toː/	/*roː/
Notes		校本認爲𠞭訛字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 剅

1. (dialectal) waterway underneath a dam or across a dike
2. a substitution for the character 扣; fastening

Compounds

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 71

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Japanese

Kanji

剅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ろう (rō)、る (ru)、とう (tō)、つ (tsu)
• Kun: さく (saku)、さける (sakeru)

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Vietnamese

Han character

剅: Hán Nôm readings: lâu

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References

• Nom Foundation