絡

See also: 络

Translingual

Han character

絡 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹水口 (VFHER), four-corner 2796₄, composition ⿰糹各)

Descendants

• 络

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 922, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27426
• Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3396, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7D61

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Chinese

trad.		絡
simp.		络

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絡
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ) – wrapped in thread, a web of thread.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luò, lào (luo⁴, lao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ, ㄌㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok³ / lok⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): log⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍k / lo̍h / le

  (Teochew, Peng'im): log⁸

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

Note: lào - only used in 絡子.

• 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/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: log⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /lɔk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loih
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /loʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /loʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /loʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le
    • Tâi-lô: le
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lef
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /le⁴⁴/

Note:

• lo̍k - literary;
• lo̍h - vernacular;
• le - 勒 is used in the Mainland.

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

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• Middle Chinese: lak

Rime
Character	絡
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	絡
Reading #	1/1
No.	3868
Phonetic component	各
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	落
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 絡

1. to enmesh; to wrap around
2. web; net

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Japanese

Kanji

絡

(Jōyō kanji)

1. entwine, coil around
2. get caught in

Readings

• Go-on: らく (raku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: らく (raku, Jōyō)
• Kun: からむ (karamu, 絡む, Jōyō); からめる (karameru, 絡める, Jōyō); からまる (karamaru, 絡まる, Jōyō); まとう (matou, 絡う); つながる (tsunagaru, 絡がる)

Compounds

• 絡(から)む (karamu, “entangle”)
• 経絡系(けいらくけい) (keirakukei, “the meridian system”)
• 連絡(れんらく) (renraku)

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Korean

Hanja

絡 • (rak>nak) (hangeul 락>낙, revised rak>nak, McCune–Reischauer rak>nak, Yale lak>nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 絡 (rạc, lạc)

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