類

See also: 类

Translingual

Japanese	類
Simplified	类
Traditional	類

Han character

類 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+10 in Chinese, 頁+9 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 火大一月金 (FKMBC), four-corner 9148₆, composition ⿰类頁)

Derived characters

• 禷

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		類
simp.		类

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蘱	*ruːls, *ruds
纇	*ruːls
類	*ruːls, *ruds
頪	*roːds
禷	*ruds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruːls, *ruds) : phonetic 頪 (OC *roːds) + semantic 犬.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 類

1. class; group; kind; category
2. Classifier for types of things: type, kind, sort

   這類問題／这类问题  ―  zhè lèi wèntí  ―  this type of question

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Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	類
Kyūjitai

Kanji

類

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. kind, sort, type, class, genus, order, family
2. similar example, parallel

Readings

• Go-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)^{←るゐ (rwi, historical)}
• Kan-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)^{←るゐ (rwi, historical)}
• On: らい (rai)
• Kun: たぐい (tagui, 類い, Jōyō)^{←たぐひ (tagufi, 類ひ, historical)}; たぐう (taguu, 類う)^{←たぐふ (tagufu, 類ふ, historical)}; たぐえる (tagueru, 類える)^{←たぐへる (taguferu, 類へる, historical)}; にる (niru, 類る); おおよそ (ōyoso, 類)^{←おほよそ (ofoyoso, 類, historical)}; おおむね (ōmune, 類)^{←おほむね (ofomune, 類, historical)}
• Nanori: とも (tomo); なお (nao); なし (nashi); よし (yoshi)

Notes

• As in historical readings "すゐ", "ずゐ", "つゐ", and "ゆゐ", most dictionaries do not have "るゐ", as a historical reading for 類. According to historical data, the on-reading of 類 is the modern "るい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten, has the "るゐ" and related -wi historical on-readings.

Compounds

• 両(りょう)生(せい)類(るい) (ryōseirui)
• 魚(ぎょ)類(るい) (gyorui)
• 鳥(ちょう)類(るい) (chōrui)
• 爬(は)虫(ちゅう)類(るい) (hachūrui)
• 哺(ほ)乳(にゅう)類(るい) (honyūrui)
• 分(ぶん)類(るい) (bunrui)
• 種(しゅ)類(るい) (shurui)

Derived terms

• 類(たぐ)い (tagui)

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Korean

Hanja

類 • (ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 類 (loại, loài, nòi)

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