烙

Translingual

Han character

烙 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火竹水口 (FHER), four-corner 9786₄, composition ⿰火各)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 670, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19014
• Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2200, character 16
• Unihan data for U+70D9

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Chinese

trad.		烙
simp. #		烙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烙
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·raːɡ) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lào, luò (lao⁴, luo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˋ, ㄌㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok³ / lok⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍h / lō / lo̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): luah⁴ / log⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵loq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, colloquial)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lào
    • Wade–Giles: lao⁴
    • Yale: làu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
    • Palladius: лао (lao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, literary)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luò
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luò
    • Wade–Giles: lo⁴
    • Yale: lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoh
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹/

Note: luò - “to burn”. also used in 炮烙 (páoluò).

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lok³ / lok⁶
    • Yale: lok / lohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁸ / lok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: log³ / log⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚³/, /lɔːk̚²/

Note:

• lok3 - colloquial;
• lok6 - variant.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loih
    • IPA (Xiamen): /loʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /loʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /loʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō
    • Tâi-lô: lō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lo²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔk̚⁴/

Note:

• lo̍h/lō - vernacular;
• lo̍k - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: luah⁴ / log⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: luah / lo̍k
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /luaʔ²/, /lok̚⁴/

Note:

• luah4 - vernacular;
• log8 - literary.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵loq
    • MiniDict: 'loh^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²'loq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /loʔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: lak

Rime
Character	烙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧各切
Baxter	lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lak̚/
Li Rong	/lɑk̚/
Wang Li	/lɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lok6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烙
Reading #	1/1
No.	3870
Phonetic component	各
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	落
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 烙

1. to brand; to mark on livestock with hot metallic object
2. to iron

   Template:zh-syn

3. to pan-fry

   烙餅／烙饼  ―  làobǐng  ―  type of flatbread

4. to burn; to cauterize

   Template:zh-syn

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02405
• “烙”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

烙

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: らく (raku)
• Kan-on: らく (raku)
• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: やく (yaku)

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Korean

Hanja

烙 • (rak>nak) (hangeul 락>낙)

1. to burn
2. to brand

Synonyms

• 燒 (소, so)
• 焠 (쉬, swi)
• 灼 (작, jag)

Compounds

• 烙印 (낙인, nag-in): branding

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 烙 (lạc)

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References

• Nom Foundation