鎏

鎏 U+938F, 鎏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938F ← 鎎 [U+938E] CJK Unified Ideographs 鎐 → [U+9390]

Translingual

Han character

鎏 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水山金 (EUC), four-corner 3010₉, composition ⿱流金)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1316, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40696
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4245, character 2
• Unihan data for U+938F

Chinese

trad.		鎏
simp. #		鎏

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic 流 (OC *ru) + semantic 金 (“gold”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liú (liu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liú
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lióu
    • Wade–Giles: liu²
    • Yale: lyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
    • Palladius: лю (lju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Definitions

鎏

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) gilt, gold leaf
2. pure gold
3. Alternative form of 鎦 / 镏

Compounds

• 鎏金 (liújīn)

Japanese

Kanji

鎏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: うつくしいがね (utsukushiigane, 鎏しいがね)

Korean

Hanja

鎏 • (ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune–Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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