牢

Translingual

Han character

牢 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十竹手 (JHQ), four-corner 3050₂, composition ⿱宀牛)

Derived characters

• 𠈭 哰 𢚄 𫰴 (⿰女牢) 㟉 𤉍 浶 𢭂 𣒲 𭷡 (⿰牜牢) 𣇟 𥒪 𦰤 𥭲 𦕵 䜮 𨦭 𨌚 𪁔 (𩧷) 𤚧 𫳵 (⿰牢何) 𬁖 (⿰星牢) 𣋀 𡫡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 698, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14031
• Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1802, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7262

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		牢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 牢
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
牢	*ruː
窂	*ruː
哰	*ruː

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 牢

1. prison; jail
   • 監牢／监牢  ―  jiānláo  ―  prison
2. pen; enclosure

   • 亡羊補牢，猶未遲也。 [MSC, trad.]
     亡羊补牢，犹未迟也。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wáng yáng bǔ láo, yóu wèi chí yě. [Pinyin]

     Repairing a sheep pen only after a sheep is lost is not considered tardy.

3. firm; fast; durable
   • 牢固  ―  láogù  ―  firm; durable
4. dependable; reliable
5. animal used for sacrificing
   • 太牢  ―  tàiláo  ―  animal used for sacrificing
6. with grievance and toil
   • 牢騷／牢骚  ―  láosāo  ―  to be discontented

Descendants

• → Manchu: ᠯᠣᠣ (loo)
  • → Solon: lō
• → Zhuang: lauz

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Japanese

Kanji

牢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. prison
2. stable, pen
3. secure

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: ひとや (hitoya, 牢); かたい (katai, 牢い)

Compounds

Compounds

• 牢屋(ろうや) (rōya)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
牢
ろう Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Alternative forms

• 籠

Noun

牢(ろう) • (rō) ^{←らう (rau)?}

1. prison

   Synonyms: 監獄 (かんごく), 牢屋 (ろうや)

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Korean

Hanja

牢 • (roe, noe, ro, no) (hangeul 뢰, 뇌, 로, 노, revised roe, noe, ro, no, McCune–Reischauer roe, noe, ro, no, Yale loy, noy, lo, no)

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Okinawan

Kanji

牢 (hiragana るー, romaji rū)

Compounds

• 牢屋 (るーや, rūya, “prison”)

Noun

牢 (hiragana るー, romaji rū)

1. prison

   Synonyms: 監獄 (かんぐく, kanguku), 牢屋 (るーや, rūya)

References

• National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2001 [1963]) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Zaimushō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牢: Hán Nôm readings: lao, lào, sao, sau

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