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Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓中一戈 (YNLMI), four-corner 00217)

References

  • KangXi: page 1099, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33685
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2122, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+8803

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*roːl
*roːl
*roːl, *roːlʔ
*roːlʔ
*rol

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (95) (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lwa/ /lwaX/
Li
Rong
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Wang
Li
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/luɑ/ /luɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
luó luǒ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
luǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ lwaX ›
Old
Chinese
/*rˤorʔ/ (*kˤorʔ.rˤorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˤorʔ ?)
English 蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 8690 8692
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
𩼊
Old
Chinese
/*roːl/ /*roːlʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (literary) the solitary wasp; a potter wasp
    蜾蠃 (“a potter wasp”)
  2. (archaic) a conch

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ra>na) (hangeul >, McCune-Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

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