褸

See also: 褛

褸 U+8938, 褸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8938 ← 褷 [U+8937] CJK Unified Ideographs 褹 → [U+8939]

Translingual

Han character

褸 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中中中女 (LLLV), four-corner 3524₄, composition ⿰衤婁)

1. lapel, collar
2. tattered, threadbare

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1123, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34530
• Dae Jaweon: page 1590, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3112, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8938

Chinese

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roː, *roʔ) : semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 婁 (OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro).

Etymology 1

trad.		褸
simp.		褛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǚ (lü³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ / lau⁵
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): li³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǚ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: lü³
    • Yale: lyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leu
    • Palladius: люй (ljuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵ / lau⁵
    • Yale: léuih / láuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ / lau⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ / leo⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³/, /lɐu̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: li³
    • Sinological IPA: /li³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: luw, ljuX

Rime
Character	褸	褸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	落侯切	力主切
Baxter	luw	ljuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/	/lɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/	/lioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/	/lioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/	/luə̆X/
Li Rong	/lu/	/lioX/
Wang Li	/ləu/	/lĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/lə̯u/	/li̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu	lǚ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau4	leoi5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roː/, /*roʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	褸	褸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8470	8497
Phonetic component	婁	婁
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	樓	縷
Old Chinese	/*roː/	/*roʔ/

Definitions

褸

1. Used in 襤褸／褴褛 (lánlǚ).

Compounds

• 晨褸／晨褛
• 篳路襤褸／筚路褴褛 (bìlùlánlǚ)
• 衣衫藍褸／衣衫蓝褛 (yīshānlánlǚ)
• 衣衫襤褸／衣衫褴褛 (yīshānlánlǚ)
• 褸裂／褛裂
• 褸襤簞瓢／褛褴箪瓢
• 襤褸／褴褛 (lánlǚ)

 

Etymology 2

trad.		褸
simp.		褛
alternative forms		摟／搂

From 摟／搂 (lau1, “to drape”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): lau¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): leu^1*

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): lau¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): lao¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lau¹
    • Yale: lāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: leu^1*
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leu³³⁻³³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: lau¹
    • Sinological IPA: /lau⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lao¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lau
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau³³/

Definitions

褸

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) coat

Synonyms

• 外套 (wàitào)

Compounds

• 中褸／中褛
• 乾濕褸／干湿褛
• 大褸／大褛
• 太空褸／太空褛
• 校褸／校褛
• 棉褸／棉褛
• 毛巾褸／毛巾褛
• 皮褸／皮褛
• 短褸／短褛
• 絨褸／绒褛
• 著褸／著褛
• 褸席／褛席
• 褸裙／褛裙
• 雨褸／雨褛
• 雪褸／雪褛
• 風褸／风褛

 

References

• “褸”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

褸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rag
2. collar, neck

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)^{←る (ru, historical)}
• Kan-on: る (ru)^{←る (ru, historical)}、ろう (rō)^{←ろう (rou, historical)}
• Kun: ぼろ (boro, 褸)、つづる (tsuzuru)

Compounds

• 襤(らん)褸(る) (ranru)

 

Korean

Hanja

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

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