卤

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See also: 滷, 鹵, and 齿
卤 U+5364, 卤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5364
← 卣
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卥 →
⻧ U+2EE7, ⻧
CJK RADICAL C-SIMPLIFIED SALT
← ⻦
 		CJK Radicals Supplement ⻨ →

Translingual

Han character

卤 (Kangxi radical 25, 卜+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜田大 (YWK), four-corner 2160, composition ⿱⺊龱 or ⿴占㐅)

Derived characters

Notes

This character has two indices in kRSUnicode: <卜+5> and <卤+0>. Unihan 8.0.0 allows 卤 to be the simplified radical of 鹵.

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 158, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2794
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4609, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5364

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卤
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (西) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
粞 *sɯːl, *sɯːl
洒 *sraːls, *sɯːlʔ
西 *sɯːl
卤 *sɯːl
卥 *sɯːl
栖 *sɯːl, *sɯːls
茜 *sʰɯːns
哂 *hjɯnʔ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 西 (“west; western; occidental; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 西).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 鹵 (“saline soil; natural salt; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 鹵).
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 滷 (“thick sauce; to stew in soy sauce and spices; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 滷).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

卤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): せい (sei)
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