漏

漏 U+6F0F, 漏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F0F ← 漎 [U+6F0E] CJK Unified Ideographs 漐 → [U+6F10]

Translingual

Han character

漏 (radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水尸一月 (ESMB), four-corner 3712₇, composition ⿰氵⿸尸雨)

1. leak, drip
2. funnel
3. hourglass

References

• KangXi: page 645, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1054, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1731, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6F0F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		漏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
漏	*roːs
瘺	*roːs
屚	*roːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lòu (lou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): leu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): lêu⁴

• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): lāu / liō / lō͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lao⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: lou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: low
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁶
    • Yale: lauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: leu
    • Hakka Romanization System: leu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: leu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /leu̯⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: lêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /leu⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāu
    • Tâi-lô: lāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lau
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /laʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /laʊ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /laʊ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liō
    • Tâi-lô: liō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lioi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lio⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/

Note:

• lāu - vernacular;
• liō/lō͘ - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: lao⁷
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lāu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau¹¹/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 漏
Mandarin	Beijing	/lou⁵¹/
	Harbin	/lou⁵³/
	Tianjin	/lou⁵³/
	Jinan	/lou²¹/
	Qingdao	/lou⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/lou³¹²/
	Xi'an	/lou⁴⁴/
	Xining	/lɯ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ləu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/lou¹³/
	Ürümqi	/lɤu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nəu³⁵/
	Chengdu	/nəu¹³/
	Guiyang	/ləu²¹³/
	Kunming	/ləu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ləɯ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/lɯ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ləu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ləu³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ləu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/lɤ²³/
	Suzhou	/lɤ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/lei¹³/
	Wenzhou	/lau²²/
Hui	Shexian	/liu²²/
	Tunxi	/liu¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ləu⁵⁵/ /ləu¹¹/
	Xiangtan	/nəɯ²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/lɛu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/leu⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/leu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/lɐu²²/
	Nanning	/lɐu²²/
	Hong Kong	/lɐu²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/lau²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/lɑu²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/le⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/lau³¹/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/lau²³/ ～雨 /lau³⁵/ 排水

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• Middle Chinese: /ləu^H/

Rime
Character	漏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ləuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ləuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwH/
Li Rong	/luH/
Wang Li	/ləuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lòu

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[Nə-r]ˤok-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	漏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lòu
Middle Chinese	‹ luwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[Nə-r]ˁok-s/
English	leak (v.)
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	漏
Reading #	1/1
No.	8514
Phonetic component	屚
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	陋
Old Chinese	/*roːs/

Definitions

漏

1. to leak
2. to leave out, to omit

Compounds

Derived terms from 漏

• 上漏下溼／上漏下湿
• 不愧屋漏
• 偷漏
• 出漏子
• 刻漏 (kèlòu)
• 功在漏刻
• 壺漏／壶漏
• 夜漏
• 夜漏將傳／夜漏将传
• 宮漏／宫漏
• 小紕漏／小纰漏
• 屁漏
• 屋漏
• 崩漏
• 待漏
• 抖漏
• 挂一漏百
• 挂一漏萬／挂一漏万
• 捅漏子
• 掛一漏萬／挂一漏万 (guàyīlòuwàn)
• 掛漏／挂漏
• 撿漏／捡漏
• 敗漏／败漏
• 春光漏泄
• 更漏
• 更長漏永／更长漏永
• 有漏
• 檢漏／检漏
• 水漏
• 江心補漏／江心补漏
• 沙漏 (shālòu)
• 河漏
• 泄漏
• 法律漏洞
• 洩漏／泄漏 (xièlòu)
• 洩漏天機／泄漏天机
• 洩漏風聲／泄漏风声
• 滲漏／渗漏
• 滴水不漏
• 滴水漏斗
• 漏了眼
• 漏光
• 漏兜
• 漏列
• 漏刻
• 漏刻之間／漏刻之间
• 漏勺 (lòusháo)
• 漏壺／漏壶

• 漏夜 (lòuyè)
• 漏天
• 漏天兒／漏天儿
• 漏失
• 漏子
• 漏孔
• 漏巵
• 漏掉 (lòudiào)
• 漏斗 (lòudǒu)
• 漏斗器
• 漏斗管
• 漏星堂
• 漏春和尚
• 漏氣／漏气 (lòuqì)
• 漏水 (lòushuǐ)
• 漏泄
• 漏泄天機／漏泄天机
• 漏洞 (lòudòng)
• 漏洞百出
• 漏洩／漏泄
• 漏洩春光／漏泄春光
• 漏滴
• 漏澤園／漏泽园
• 漏瘡／漏疮
• 漏瘡痘／漏疮痘
• 漏盆 (lòupén)
• 漏盡／漏尽
• 漏盡更闌／漏尽更阑
• 漏稅／漏税 (lòushuì)
• 漏窗
• 漏管
• 漏箭
• 漏粉
• 漏精
• 漏網／漏网 (lòuwǎng)
• 漏網之魚／漏网之鱼 (lòuwǎngzhīyú)
• 漏網游魚／漏网游鱼
• 漏網魚／漏网鱼
• 漏聲／漏声
• 漏胎
• 漏脫／漏脱
• 漏脯充饑／漏脯充饥
• 漏落
• 漏虀搭菜
• 漏蹄
• 漏逗
• 漏雨
• 漏電／漏电 (lòudiàn)

• 漏露
• 漏面賊／漏面贼
• 漏風／漏风 (lòufēng)
• 漏風掌／漏风掌
• 漏風聲／漏风声
• 漏鼓
• 無漏／无漏
• 玉漏
• 疏漏 (shūlòu)
• 疏而不漏
• 痔漏 (zhìlòu)
• 百無一漏／百无一漏
• 皮漏
• 盛水不漏
• 短漏
• 窮閻漏屋／穷阎漏屋
• 箭漏
• 紕漏／纰漏
• 網漏吞舟／网漏吞舟
• 缺漏 (quēlòu)
• 罅漏
• 肛漏
• 脫漏／脱漏 (tuōlòu)
• 蓮花漏／莲花漏
• 藏頭漏影／藏头漏影
• 補苴罅漏／补苴罅漏
• 裨補闕漏／裨补阙漏
• 賺漏／赚漏
• 走漏 (zǒulòu)
• 走漏天機／走漏天机
• 走漏消息
• 走漏風聲／走漏风声
• 軌漏／轨漏
• 轉漏／转漏
• 逃漏
• 逃漏稅／逃漏税
• 透漏
• 遺漏／遗漏 (yílòu)
• 釵腳漏痕／钗脚漏痕
• 銅壺滴漏／铜壶滴漏
• 錮漏／锢漏
• 錯漏／错漏 (cuòlòu)
• 鐘漏／钟漏
• 鐘鳴漏盡／钟鸣漏尽
• 長漏／长漏
• 鹽漏／盐漏
• 點水不漏／点水不漏

References

• “Entry #10637”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

漏

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to leak
2. to escape

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kun: もる (moru, 漏る, Jōyō); もれる (moreru, 漏れる, Jōyō); もらす (morasu, 漏らす, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 砂漏 (さろう) (sarō, “hourglass”)

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Korean

Hanja

漏 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

漏 (lậu, lâu, làu, lạu)

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