蒲盧

Chinese

		calamus	surname
trad. (蒲盧)		蒲	盧
simp. (蒲卢)		蒲	卢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): púlú

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ ㄌㄨˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: púlú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ ㄌㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: púlú
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²-lu²
    • Yale: pú-lú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwulu
    • Palladius: пулу (pulu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵ lu³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bu lu

Rime
Character	蒲	盧
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	薄胡切	落胡切
Baxter	bu	lu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buo/	/luo/
Pan Wuyun	/buo/	/luo/
Shao Rongfen	/bo/	/lo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔ/	/lɔ/
Li Rong	/bo/	/lo/
Wang Li	/bu/	/lu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuo/	/luo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pú	lú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pou4	lou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*baː  b·raː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蒲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pú
Middle Chinese	‹ bu ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁa/
English	part of personal name
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	蒲	盧
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3441	5199
Phonetic component	甫	虍
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	酺	盧
Old Chinese	/*baː/	/*b·raː/

Noun

蒲盧

1. Synonym of 蜾蠃 (guǒluǒ), or synonym of 蘆葦／芦苇 (lúwěi)
2. A kind of bottle gourd thin in the middle.

Descendants

(water plant):

• → Tangut: 𘀔𗺦 (*phu¹ rur¹)

Proper noun

蒲盧

1. a surname