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婁

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See also: 娄
婁 U+5A41, 婁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A41
← 婀
[U+5A40] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 婂 →
[U+5A42]

Translingual

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Han character

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婁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV) or 中田中女 (LWLV), four-corner 50404, composition ⿳毋中女)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6383
  • Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1058, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5A41

Chinese

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trad. 婁
simp. 娄
alternative forms
𡞔
𡝨
𡝤
𡡋
𡡼
𡞔
𡝨
𡝤
𡡋
𡡼
𡜰
𡇔
𣫻
 

Glyph origin

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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

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro) : semantic 爪 (“hands”) + phonetic 角 (OC *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ) + semantic 女 (“woman”). Meaning uncertain.

Later ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 婁
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落侯切
Baxter luw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ləu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ləu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ləw/
Li
Rong 		/lu/
Wang
Li 		/ləu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lóu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)

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 婁
Reading # 1/2
No. 8457
Phonetic
component 		婁
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		樓
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡ·roː/

Definitions

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婁

  1. (Chinese astronomy) the constellation Lóu, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions
  2. (dialectal, of a body) weak; feeble; frail
  3. (dialectal, of melons) overripe and unfit to eat
  4. a surname

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 婁
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力朱切
Baxter lju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/luə̆/
Li
Rong 		/lio/
Wang
Li 		/lĭu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǘ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		leoi4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lóu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)

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 婁
Reading # 2/2
No. 8493
Phonetic
component 		婁
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		慺
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡ·ro/

Definitions

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婁

  1. (obsolete) to drag; to trail; to pull

Compounds

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Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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婁

  1. (obsolete) to tether oxen

Etymology 4

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For pronunciation and definitions of 婁 – see 屢 (“repeatedly; frequently”).
(This character is a variant form of 屢).

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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婁

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. tie

Readings

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  • Go-on: る (ru)
  • Kan-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kun: つなぐ (tsunagu, 婁ぐ)、ひく (hiku, 婁く)

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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婁 (eum 루 (ru))

  1. a constellation
  2. to wear

Vietnamese

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Han character

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婁: Hán Nôm readings: lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ

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