洡

See also: 䣂

洡 U+6D21, 洡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D21 ← 洠 [U+6D20] CJK Unified Ideographs 洢 → [U+6D22]

Translingual

Han character

洡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 水手木 (EQD), four-corner 3519₀, composition ⿰氵耒)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 621, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17391
• Dae Jaweon: page 1017, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1608, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6D21

Chinese

simp. and trad.		洡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
頛	*ruːlʔ
郲	*rɯː, *ruːlʔ, *ruːlʔ
耒	*ruːls, *rulʔ
銇	*ruːls
洡	*ruːls
誄	*rulʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ruːls): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 耒 (OC *ruːls, *rulʔ).

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lèi (lei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lèi
    • Wade–Giles: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ley
    • Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶
    • Yale: leuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ruːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洡
Reading #	1/1
No.	7763
Phonetic component	耒
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	纇
Old Chinese	/*ruːls/
Notes	與郎外切㱻同源

Definitions

洡 (historical dictionaries only)

1. to saturate, soak; (of color) to bleed, run

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 洡 – see 䣂. (This character is a variant form of 䣂).

Further reading

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C06150
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C14562-004

Japanese

Kanji

洡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): らい (rai)、れ (re)

Korean

Hanja

洡 (eumhun 고을 이름 뢰 (go'eul ireum roe), word-initial (South Korea) 고을 이름 뇌 (go'eul ireum noe))

1. town name

Vietnamese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ruːls): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 耒 (lỗi).

Hán-Nôm

洡: Nôm readings: lội, sùi, dồi, giội, dội, lồi, sủi, suối, chuồi, doi, giồi, lầy, ròi, soi, trôi, trồi, xối, xùi

1. chữ Nôm form of chuồi (“to slide down; to slip, shove in”)
2. chữ Nôm form of doi (“sandbank”)
3. chữ Nôm form of dồi (“to buffet, heave; to stuff, cram”)
4. chữ Nôm form of dội (“to pour, douse; to echo, reverberate”)
5. chữ Nôm form of giồi (“to buffet, heave”)
6. chữ Nôm form of giội (“to pour, douse”)
7. chữ Nôm form of lầy (“muddy”)
8. chữ Nôm form of lồi (“protruding, jutting or convex”)
9. chữ Nôm form of lội (“to wade”)
10. chữ Nôm form of ròi (“(used in rạch ròi) clearly; with neat distinctions”)
11. chữ Nôm form of soi (“to illuminate; to inspect, examine”)
12. chữ Nôm form of sùi (“to foam, bubble; to become bumpy”)
13. chữ Nôm form of sủi (“to fizz, simmer”)
14. chữ Nôm form of suối (“stream, brook”)
15. chữ Nôm form of trôi (“to drift”)
16. chữ Nôm form of trồi (“to emerge”)
17. chữ Nôm form of xối (“to pour down”)
18. chữ Nôm form of xùi (“to foam, bubble”)