縷

See also: 缕

Translingual

Traditional	縷
Shinjitai (extended)	𫃵
Simplified	缕

Han character

縷 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火中中女 (VFLLV), four-corner 2594₄, composition ⿰糹婁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 936, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27832
• Dae Jaweon: page 1375, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3442, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7E37

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Chinese

trad.		縷
simp.		缕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	*roː, *ro
耬	*roː
僂	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	*roː, *ro
廔	*roː
嘍	*roː, *roːʔ
瞜	*roː, *ro
簍	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜	*roː, *ro
褸	*roː, *roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	*roːʔ, *roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	*roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤	*roːs, *ro
瘻	*roːs, *ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 縷

1. thread
2. detailed, precise
3. Classifier for wisps, threads, or strands.

References

• “縷”, 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

縷

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𫃵)

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Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: る (ru); ろう (rō)
• Kun: いと (ito, 縷)

Compounds

Compounds

• 繁縷(はこべ) (hakobe), 繁縷(はこべら) (hakobera): chickweed

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 縷 (lũ, lụa, lũ, lú)

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