頭顱

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See also: 头颅

Chinese

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head; (noun suffix) forehead; skull
trad. (頭顱)
simp. (头颅)

Etymology

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According to Schuessler (2007), cognate with 髑髏 (OC *doːɡ roː, “skull”) and 𩑒顱 (MC dak|traek|trhaek lu, “skull”). The word is reminiscent of Mizo lu ro (skull) (lit. "dried head") and Mizo lu ruh (skull) (lit. "head-bone"), just as in Chinese the first syllable is "head". The second syllable, (OC *b·raː), is likely a reduplication syllable beginning with *r/*l. See 髑髏髑髅 (dúlóu) for more.

Note this compound is attested earlier than ().

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (37)
Final () (137) (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter duw lu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dəu/ /luo/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəu/ /luo/
Shao
Rongfen
/dəu/ /lo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəw/ /lɔ/
Li
Rong
/du/ /lo/
Wang
Li
/dəu/ /lu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱə̯u/ /luo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tau4 lou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ duw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m-t]ˁo/
English head

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2465 5204
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doː/ /*b·raː/

Noun

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頭顱

  1. head; skull

Synonyms

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