榴

Translingual

Han character

榴 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木竹竹田 (DHHW), four-corner 4796₂, composition ⿰木留)

Derived characters

• 籕, 𡂆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 544, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15280
• Dae Jaweon: page 932, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1267, character 5
• Unihan data for U+69B4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		榴
alternative forms		⿰木畄 (second-round simplified)

Opened pomegranate

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卯	*mruːʔ
昴	*mruːʔ
泖	*mruːʔ
茆	*mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅	*m̥ʰruːs
窌	*m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊	*m·rɯːw
貿	*mlus
鄮	*mlus
劉	*m·ru
留	*m·ru, *m·rus
蒥	*m·ru
鶹	*m·ru
騮	*m·ru
榴	*m·ru
瑠	*ru
瘤	*m·ru, *m·rus
遛	*m·ru
鎦	*m·ru
飀	*m·ru
鰡	*m·ru
嵧	*m·ru
餾	*m·ru, *m·rus
瀏	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳	*m·ruʔ
珋	*m·ruʔ
罶	*m·ruʔ
嬼	*m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜	*m·rus
霤	*m·rus
廇	*m·rus
塯	*m·rus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m·ru) : semantic 木 + phonetic 留 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus).

Etymology

The botanist Li Shizhen suggests that 榴 is the same as 瘤 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus, “lump, tumour”), as the pomegranate fruit resembles cancerous outgrowths on the body.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 榴

1. Short for 石榴 (shíliú, “pomegranate”).
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

榴

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pomegranate

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: ざくろ (zakuro, 榴)

Compounds

Compounds with 榴

• 崖石榴(いたびかずら) (itabikazura)
• 若榴(ざくろ) (zakuro)
• 柘榴(ざくろ) (zakuro); or 柘榴(じゃくろ) (jakuro)
• 石榴(ざくろ) (zakuro); or 石榴(せきりゅう) (sekiryū); or 石榴(じゃくろ) (jakuro)
• 石榴石(ざくろいし) (zakuroishi)
• 石榴口(ざくろぐち) (zakuroguchi)
• 石榴鼻(ざくろばな) (zakurobana)
• 手榴弾(しゅりゅうだん) (shuryūdan); or 手榴弾(てりゅうだん) (teryūdan)

• 海石榴(つばき) (tsubaki)
• 花柘榴(はなざくろ) (hanazakuro)
• 蕃石榴(ばんじろう) (banjirō)
• 榴輝岩(りゅうきがん) (ryūkigan)
• 榴散弾(りゅうさんだん) (ryūsandan)
• 榴霰弾(りゅうさんだん) (ryūsandan)
• 榴弾(りゅうだん) (ryūdan)
• 榴弾砲(りゅうだんほう) (ryūdanhō)

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Korean

Hanja

榴 • (ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune–Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 榴 (lựu)

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