類

See also: 类

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ruːls, *ruds): 犬 + 頪

Han character

類 (radical 181 頁+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火大一月金 (FKMBC), four-corner 9148₆, composition ⿰⿱米犬頁)

Derived terms

• 禷

References

• KangXi: page 1408, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43608
• Dae Jaweon: page 1926, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4387, character 4
• Unihan data for U+985E

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Chinese

trad.		類
simp.		类

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lèi (lei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lui
• Min Nan (POJ): lūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ley
    • IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶
    • Yale: leuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lui
    • Hakka Romanization System: lui
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lui⁴
    • IPA: /lu̯i⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lūi
    • Tâi-lô: luī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lui
    • IPA (Taipei): /lui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lui²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 類
Mandarin	Beijing	/lei⁵¹/
	Harbin	/lei⁵³/
	Tianjin	/lei⁵³/
	Jinan	/luei²¹/
	Qingdao	/le⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/luei³¹²/
	Xi'an	/luei⁴⁴/
	Xining	/luɨ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/luei¹³/
	Lanzhou	/luei¹³/
	Ürümqi	/luei²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nei³⁵/
	Chengdu	/nuei¹³/
	Guiyang	/nuei²¹³/
	Kunming	/nuei²¹²/
	Nanjing	/luəi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/le⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/luei⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/luei³⁵/
	Hohhot	/luei⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/le²³/
	Suzhou	/le̞³¹/
	Hangzhou	/lei¹³/
	Wenzhou	/løy²²/
Hui	Shexian	/le²²/ /ly²²/
	Tunxi	/lə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/lei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/nəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/lui²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/lui⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/lui⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/løy²²/
	Nanning	/lui²²/
	Hong Kong	/løy²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/lui²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/luɔi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ly⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/lui³¹/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/lui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /liuɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	類
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力遂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwiH/
Li Rong	/luiH/
Wang Li	/lwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lèi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]u[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ruːls/, /*ruds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	類
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lèi
Middle Chinese	‹ lwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]u[t]-s/
English	category
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	類	類
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7770	7772
Phonetic component	頪	頪
Rime group	微	隊
Rime subdivision	2	3
Corresponding MC rime	纇	類
Old Chinese	/*ruːls/	/*ruds/

Definitions

類

1. class, group, kind, category

Compounds

• 菌類／菌类 (jūnlèi)
• 類乎／类乎
• 類人猿／类人猿 (lèirényuán)
• 類似／类似 (lèisì)
• 類別／类别 (lèibié)

• 類同／类同
• 類地行星／类地行星
• 類型／类型 (lèixíng)
• 類推／类推 (lèituī)
• 類新星／类新星

• 類星體／类星体 (lèixīngtǐ)
• 類書／类书
• 類比／类比
• 類群／类群

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Japanese

Kanji

類

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: るい (rui)
• Kan’on: るい (rui)
• On (unclassified): らい (rai)
• Kun: たぐい (tagui), にる (niru), おおよそ (ōyoso), おおむね (ōmune)
• Nanori: とも (tomo), なお (nao), なし (nashi), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 両生類 (りょうせいるい) ‎(ryōseirui)
• 魚類 (ぎょるい) ‎(gyorui)
• 鳥類 (ちょうるい) ‎(chōrui)
• 爬虫類 (はちゅうるい) ‎(hachūrui)
• 哺乳類 (ほにゅうるい) ‎(honyūrui)
• 分類 (ぶんるい) ‎(bunrui)
• 種類 (しゅるい) ‎(shurui)

Derived terms

• 類 (たぐ)い ‎(tagui)

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Korean

Hanja

類 • ‎(ryu, yu) (hangeul 류, 유, revised ryu, yu, McCune-Reischauer ryu, yu, Yale lyu, yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

類 (loại, loài, nòi)

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