埒

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See also: 埓
埒 U+57D2, 埒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57D2
← 埑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 埓 →

Translingual

Han character

埒 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土月木戈 (GBDI), four-corner 42149, composition ⿰土寽)

  1. enclosure, dike, embankment

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5123
  • Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 446, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+57D2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 埒
alternative forms 埓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (寽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
酹 *roːds, *ruːls
脟 *ronʔ, *rod
捋 *roːd
蛶 *roːd, *rod
埒 *rod
鋝 *rod, *srod
浖 *rod
哷 *rod
寽 *rud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rod) : semantic 土 + phonetic 寽 (OC *rud).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 埒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 薛 (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力輟切
Baxter ljwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lwiat̚/
Li
Rong 		/liuɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lüè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lyut6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 埒
Reading # 1/1
No. 8591
Phonetic
component 		寽
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		劣
Old
Chinese 		/*rod/

Definitions

埒

  1. (obsolete) toe wall; raised path between crop fields; margin
  2. (obsolete) water flow on the mountains
  3. (obsolete) ancient name of a place in Shanxi province

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

埒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: れち (rechi)
  • Kan-on: れつ (retsu)
  • Kan’yō-on: らち (rachi)、らつ (ratsu)
  • Kun: かこい (kakoi, 埒い)、かき (kaki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
埒
らち
Hyōgai
kan'yōon

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

埒(らち) • (rachi) 

  1. a fence built around a stable
  2. a fence built around something
    • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 523:
      Rachi. ラチ (埒) 柵・垣. 比喩. Rachiuo aquru. (埒を明くる) 物事をよく解明する。Rachino aita fito. (埒の明いた人)素直で、道理にはすぐに副する人. Rachiuo coyuru, l, yaburu. (埒を越ゆる、または、破る)規則や禁制条項を破る、または、道理に背く.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. a partition or limit

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

埒 • (ral) (hangeul 랄, revised ral, McCune–Reischauer ral)

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