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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹水口 (EHER), four-corner 37164, composition)

  1. Several Chinese rivers
  2. A surname.

References

  • KangXi: page 620, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17383
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1016, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1614, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6D1B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰraːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡs
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿 *ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
*ɡ·raːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ
*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
*klaːɡ
*kʰlaːɡ
*kʰaːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ
*ɡlaːɡ
*ɡ·raɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*kʰraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ŋɡraːɡ
*ɡraːɡ
*ɡraːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /luo⁵¹/
Harbin /luo⁵³/
Tianjin /lɤ⁵³/
Jinan /luə²¹/
Qingdao /luə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luo²⁴/
Xi'an /luo²¹/
Xining /lu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /luə¹³/
Lanzhou /luə¹³/
Ürümqi /luɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /nuo²¹³/
Chengdu /no³¹/
Guiyang /no²¹/
Kunming /lo³¹/
Nanjing /loʔ⁵/
Hefei /luɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /luaʔ²/
Pingyao /lʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /luaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /loʔ¹/
Suzhou /loʔ³/
Hangzhou /loʔ²/
Wenzhou /lo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /lɔ²²/
Tunxi /lo⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /lo²⁴/
Xiangtan /no²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /lɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lok̚⁵/
Taoyuan /lok̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lɔk̚³/
Nanning /lɔk̚³³/
Hong Kong /lɔk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lɔk̚⁵/
/loʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /louʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /lɔ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lɔk̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lak̚/
Li
Rong
/lɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/lɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
luò
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3866
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Proper noun

  1. (geography) Luo River (洛) in Shaanxi, a tributary of the Wei River.
  2. (geography) Luo River (洛) in Henan, a tributary of the Yellow River.
  3. (geography) Luo River (洛) in Fujian, which flows into the Taiwan Strait in Quanzhou.
  4. A Chinese surname.
  5. (Mainland) Used in the phonetic transcription of /lɒ/, /lɔː/, and /loʊ/ into Chinese characters

Compounds

  • 京洛
  • 伊洛
  • 巫山洛浦
  • 愛洛娜爱洛娜
  • 摩洛哥 (Móluògē)
  • 果洛
  • 河圖洛書河图洛书
  • 河洛 (héluò)
  • 洛京
  • 洛伊盆地
  • 洛伯
  • 洛可可
  • 洛學洛学
  • 洛巴
  • 洛書洛书
  • 洛杉磯洛杉矶 (Luòshānjī)
  • 洛東江洛东江
  • 洛林
  • 洛桑
  • 洛桑公約洛桑公约
  • 洛桑會議洛桑会议
  • 洛梅
  • 洛次
  • 洛水 (Luò Shuǐ)
  • 洛浦宓妃
  • 洛神
  • 洛神葵
  • 洛神賦洛神赋
  • 洛閩之學洛闽之学
  • 洛陽洛阳 (Luòyáng)
  • 洛陽才子洛阳才子
  • 洛陽橋洛阳桥
  • 洛陽紙貴洛阳纸贵
  • 洛黨洛党
  • 海洛因 (hǎiluòyīn)
  • 濂洛關閩濂洛关闽
  • 特洛伊城
  • 瞻彼洛矣
  • 菲洛普環菲洛普环
  • 西洛可風西洛可风
  • 費洛蒙费洛蒙

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(rak>nak) (hangeul 락>, revised rak>nak, McCune-Reischauer rak>nak, Yale lak>nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lạc, rặc, chua, lặng)

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