卤

See also: 滷, 鹵, and 齿

卤 U+5364, 卤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5364 ← 卣 [U+5363] CJK Unified Ideographs 卥 → [U+5365]

Translingual

Han character

卤 (radical 25, 卜+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜田大 (YWK), four-corner 2160, composition ⿱⺊龱 or ⿴占㐅)

Derived characters

• 硵, 禼, 鹾, 𠧟, 𠧤, 𠨄, 𠳱, 𫜊, 𫠗, 𫼵, 𬸵, 𬸶, 𬸷, 𬸸, 𬸹

Notes

This character has two indices in kRSUnicode: <卜+5> and <卤+0>. Unihan 8.0.0 allows 卤 to be the simplified radical of 鹵. However, only 9 characters are grouped in.

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2794
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4609, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5364

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (西) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
粞	*sɯːl, *sɯːl
洒	*sraːls, *sɯːlʔ
西	*sɯːl
卤	*sɯːl
卥	*sɯːl
栖	*sɯːl, *sɯːls
茜	*sʰɯːns
哂	*hjɯnʔ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 西 (“west; western”). (This character, 卤, is a variant form of 西.)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 鹵 (“saline soil; natural salt; etc.”). (This character, 卤, is the simplified form of 鹵.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 滷 (“thick sauce; to stew in soy sauce and spices”). (This character, 卤, is the simplified form of 滷.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

卤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せい (sei)