羅

See also: 罗

Translingual

Han character

羅 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中女火土 (WLVFG), four-corner 6091₄, composition ⿱罒維)

Derived characters

• 儸 (㑩), 攞, 囉 (啰), 玀 (猡), 欏 (椤), 曪, 纙, 鑼 (锣), 饠 (𫗩), 蘿 (萝), 籮 (箩), 邏 (逻)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2928, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F85

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Chinese

trad.		羅
simp.		罗*
alternative forms		𪜀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羅
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
羅	*raːl
蘿	*raːl
籮	*raːl
儸	*raːl
饠	*raːl
欏	*raːl, *raːlʔ
囉	*raːl
鑼	*raːl
邏	*raːl, *raːls

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 网 (“net”) + 維 (“bird (tied with string)”) — net for catching birds.

Etymology

Meaning "gross (144)" is borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): luó (luo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): no²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lò
• Northern Min (KCR): lô̤
• Eastern Min (BUC): lò̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lô / lô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lo⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luó
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luó
    • Wade–Giles: lo²
    • Yale: lwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luo
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: no²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /no²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lo⁴
    • Yale: lòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lò
    • Hakka Romanization System: loˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lo²
    • Sinological IPA: /lo¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lô̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lò̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃o⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô
    • Tâi-lô: lô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: looi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /lo²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô͘
    • Tâi-lô: lôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lo⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶lu
    • MiniDict: lu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lu²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 羅
Mandarin	Beijing	/luo³⁵/
	Harbin	/luo²⁴/
	Tianjin	/luo⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/luə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/luə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/luo⁴²/
	Xi'an	/luo²⁴/
	Xining	/lu²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/luə⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/luə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/luɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/nuo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/no³¹/
	Guiyang	/no²¹/
	Kunming	/lo³¹/
	Nanjing	/lo²⁴/
	Hefei	/lʊ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/lɤ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/lei¹³/
	Hohhot	/luɤ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/lu²³/
	Suzhou	/ləu¹³/
	Hangzhou	/lo²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/lɤu³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/lo⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/lo⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/lo¹³/
	Xiangtan	/no¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/lo⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/lo¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/lo¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/lɔ²¹/
	Nanning	/lɔ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/lɔ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lo³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/lo⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/lɔ³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/lo⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/lo³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: la

Rime
Character	羅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	魯何切
Baxter	la
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/la/
Li Rong	/lɑ/
Wang Li	/lɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lo4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*rˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luó
Middle Chinese	‹ la ›
Old Chinese	/*rˁaj/
English	a kind of net (on a handle?) (Shuōwén: "bird net")
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	羅
Reading #	1/1
No.	8676
Phonetic component	羅
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	羅
Old Chinese	/*raːl/
Notes	象張網系隹

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 羅

1. net for catching birds
2. gauze
3. gross (144)
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

羅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk
2. (Abbreviation) Latin (language)

Readings

• Go-on: ら (ra, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ら (ra, Jōyō)
• Kun: あみ (ami, 羅); つらねる (tsuraneru, 羅ねる); うすもの (usumono, 羅)

Compounds

Compounds

• 雀(じゃく)羅(ら) (jakura): sparrow net
• 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura): tempura
• 羅(ら)袖(しゅう) (rashū): lightweight-fabric sleeve
• 羅(ら)針(しん)盤(ばん) (rashinban): a compass
• 羅(ら)針(しん)儀(ぎ) (rashingi): a compass
• 甲(こう)羅(ら) (kōra): shell, carapace

Kanji in this term
羅
ら Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

羅(ら) • (ra) 

1. lightweight fabric

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Korean

Hanja

羅 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

1. La, Old Korean dynasty, spreading something, silk fabric, netting for catching, sieving, spiral, net

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Vietnamese

Han character

羅: Hán Nôm readings: la, là

1. to be

References

• Nom Foundation