櫓

See also: 橹

櫓 U+6AD3, 櫓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AD3 ← 櫒 [U+6AD2] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫔 → [U+6AD4]

櫓 U+F931, 櫓 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F931 ← 擄 [U+F930] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 爐 → [U+F932]

Translingual

Han character

櫓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木弓田日 (DNWA), four-corner 4796₃, composition ⿰木魯)

1. scull, sweep, oar
2. to row
3. lookout turret on a city wall, movable wooden tower for archers

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15798
• Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1315, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6AD3

• Unihan data for U+F931

Chinese

trad.		櫓
simp.		橹
alternative forms		樐 艪 艣／𫇛 㯭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
魯	*raːʔ
櫓	*raːʔ
穭	*raʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raːʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 魯 (OC *raːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǔ (lu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ló͘
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǔ
    • Wade–Giles: lu³
    • Yale: lǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luu
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lou⁵
    • Yale: lóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló͘
    • Tâi-lô: lóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lor
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶lu
    • MiniDict: lu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: luX

Rime
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎古切
Baxter	luX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luoX/
Pan Wuyun	/luoX/
Shao Rongfen	/loX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɔX/
Li Rong	/loX/
Wang Li	/luX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lou5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ luX ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaʔ/
English	shield (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
No.	8526
Phonetic component	魯
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	魯
Old Chinese	/*raːʔ/

Definitions

櫓

1. scull
2. large shield

Compounds

• 干櫓
• 搖櫓 / 摇橹 (yáolǔ)
• 樓櫓 / 楼橹
• 檣櫓 / 樯橹
• 櫓帆船 / 橹帆船
• 櫓棹
• 櫓槳 / 橹桨
• 烽櫓 / 烽橹
• 譙櫓 / 谯橹
• 轒櫓 / 𮝷橹

Japanese

Kanji

櫓

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろ (ro)
• Kun: おおだて (ōdate, 櫓)、やぐら (yagura, 櫓)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
櫓
やぐら Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Compound of 矢 (ya, “arrow”) and 倉 (kura, “storehouse”). See also 矢倉 (yagura).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やぐら [yàgúrá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ɡɯ̟ɾa̠]

Noun

櫓(やぐら) • (yagura) 

1. watchtower, turret
2. the wooden frame of a kotatsu, in which the heat source is housed
   • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 23, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 上 先生と私 [Sensei and I]:

     二人(ふたり)とも無精(ぶしょう)な性質(せいしつ)なので、炬燵(こたつ)にあたったまま、[将碁(しょうぎ)]盤(ばん)を櫓(やぐら)の上(うえ)へ載(の)せて、駒(こま)を動(うご)かすたびに、わざわざ手(て)を掛蒲団(かけぶとん)の下(した)から出(だ)すような事(こと)をした。

     Futari tomo bushō na seishitsu na no de, kotatsu ni atatta mama, [shōgi]ban o yagura no ue e nosete, koma o ugokasu tabi ni, wazawaza te o kakebuton no shita kara dasu yō na koto o shita.

     As we were both quite lazy, we sat at the kotatsu, with the [shōgi] board atop the yagura, and every time we moved a piece we'd have to reach a hand out from under the blanket.

Derived terms

• 櫓落(やぐらおと)し (yaguraotoshi)
• 櫓苔(ヤグラゴケ) (yaguragoke)
• 櫓炬燵(やぐらこたつ) (yagurakotatsu)
• 櫓時計(やぐらどけい) (yaguradokei)
• 櫓貫(やぐらぬき) (yaguranuki)
• 櫓葱(やぐらねぎ) (yaguranegi)
• 櫓船(やぐらぶね) (yagurabune)
• 櫓幕(やぐらまく) (yaguramaku)
• 櫓物(やぐらもの) (yaguramono)
• 貝櫓(かいやぐら) (kaiyagura)
• 代(か)え櫓(やぐら) (kaeyagura)
• 舁櫓(かきやぐら) (kakiyagura)
• 首櫓(くびやぐら) (kubiyagura)
• 炬燵櫓(こたつやぐら) (kotatsuyagura)
• 笹櫓(ささやぐら) (sasayagura)
• 隅櫓(すみやぐら) (sumiyagura)
• 太鼓櫓(たいこやぐら) (taikoyagura)
• 高櫓(たかやぐら) (takayagura)
• 花櫓(はなやぐら) (hanayagura)
• 控(ひか)え櫓(やぐら) (hikaeyagura)
• 船櫓(ふなやぐら) (funayagura)
• 物見櫓(ものみやぐら) (monomiyagura)
• 門櫓(もんやぐら) (mon'yagura)
• 渡(わた)り櫓(やぐら) (watariyagura)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
櫓
ろ Jinmeiyō
kan'on

Noun

櫓(ろ) • (ro) 

1. (nautical) scull

Derived terms

• 櫓脚(ろあし) (roashi)
• 櫓腕(ろうで) (rōde)
• 櫓櫂(ろかい) (rokai)
• 櫓舵(ろかじ) (rokaji)
• 櫓杭(ろぐい) (rogui)
• 櫓声(ろせい) (rosei)
• 櫓柄(ろづか) (rozuka)
• 櫓柄(ろづく) (rozuku)
• 櫓綱(ろづな) (rozuna)
• 櫓床(ろどく) (rodoku)
• 櫓縄(ろなわ) (ronawa)
• 櫓羽(ろば) (roba)
• 逆櫓(さかろ) (sakaro)
• 柔櫓(じゅうろ) (jūro)
• 脇櫓(わきろ) (wakiro)

References

• “^▲櫓”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

櫓 (eumhun 방패 로 (bangpae ro), word-initial (South Korea) 방패 노 (bangpae no))

1. hanja form^? of 로 (“(North Korea) oar”)
2. hanja form^? of 노 (“(South Korea) oar”)

Vietnamese

Han character

櫓: Hán Nôm readings: lỗ

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