濼

See also: 泊 and 泺

Translingual

Han character

濼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水女戈木 (EVID), four-corner 3219₄, composition ⿰氵樂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 658, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18563
• Dae Jaweon: page 1068, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1779, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6FFC

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Chinese

trad.		濼
simp.		泺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 濼
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
樂	*ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢	*raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼	*pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
躒	*raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
擽	*rawɢ, *reːwɢ
爍	*qʰljawɢ
鑠	*qʰljawɢ
藥	*lawɢ
櫟	*lawɢ, *reːwɢ
纅	*lawɢ
礫	*reːwɢ
瓅	*reːwɢ
皪	*reːwɢ
觻	*reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
嚛	*qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luò (luo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ / baak³ / pok³ / bok⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luò
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luò
    • Wade–Giles: lo⁴
    • Yale: lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoh
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lok⁶ / baak³ / pok³ / bok⁶
    • Yale: lohk / baak / pok / bohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹ / baak⁸ / pok⁸ / bok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: log⁶ / bag³ / pog³ / bog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚²/, /paːk̚³/, /pʰɔːk̚³/, /pɔːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: luwk, phuwk, lowk, lak, phak, lek

Rime
Character	濼	濼	濼	濼	濼	濼
Reading #	1/6	2/6	3/6	4/6	5/6	6/6
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	滂 (2)	來 (37)	來 (37)	滂 (2)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	屋 (3)	沃 (6)	鐸 (103)	鐸 (104)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	I	I	I	I	IV
Fanqie	盧谷切	普木切	盧毒切	盧各切	匹各切	郎擊切
Baxter	luwk	phuwk	lowk	lak	phak	lek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/luok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰwɑk̚/	/lek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/luok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰʷɑk̚/	/lek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/lok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰuɑk̚/	/lɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwk̚/	/pʰəwk̚/	/lawk̚/	/lak̚/	/pʰwak̚/	/lɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/lok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰuɑk̚/	/lek̚/
Wang Li	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/luok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰuɑk̚/	/liek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/luk̚/	/pʰuk̚/	/luok̚/	/lɑk̚/	/pʰwɑk̚/	/liek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù	pu	lù	luò	po	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	luk6	puk1	luk6	lok6	pok3	lik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤawk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pqʰlaːwɢ/, /*raːwɢ/, /*reːwɢ/, /*pqʰloːwɢ/, /*roːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	濼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luò
Middle Chinese	‹ lowk ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁawk/
English	(name of a river)
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	濼	濼	濼	濼	濼	濼
Reading #	1/6	2/6	3/6	4/6	5/6	6/6
No.	7672	7676	7691	7693	7695	7697
Phonetic component	樂	樂	樂	樂	樂	樂
Rime group	藥	藥	藥	藥	藥	藥
Rime subdivision	1	1	2	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	𩔈	落	靂	扑	禄	濼
Old Chinese	/*pqʰlaːwɢ/	/*raːwɢ/	/*reːwɢ/	/*pqʰloːwɢ/	/*roːwɢ/	/*roːwɢ/
Notes			見爾雅

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 濼

1. river in Shandong province

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02333
• “濼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pō (po¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pō
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: po
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo¹
    • Yale: pwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 濼

1. lake

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Japanese

Kanji

濼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ろく (roku); ほく (hoku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

濼: Hán Nôm readings: lạc

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