縷

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See also: 缕
縷 U+7E37, 縷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E37
← 縶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 縸 →
縷 U+F950, 縷
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F950
← 累
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 陋 →

Translingual

Traditional 縷
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𫃵
Simplified 缕

Han character

縷 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火中中女 (VFLLV), four-corner 25944, composition ⿰糹婁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 936, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27832
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1375, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3442, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7E37

Chinese

trad. 縷
simp. 缕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

Note: lau5 - alternative pronunciation.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 縷
Mandarin Beijing /ly²¹⁴/
Harbin /ly²¹³/
/ly⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ly¹³/
Jinan /ly⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ly⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ly⁵³/
Xi'an /ly⁵³/
Xining /l̩ʷ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ly⁵³/
Lanzhou /ly⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ly⁵¹/
Wuhan /ny⁴²/
Chengdu /nəu⁵³/
Guiyang /nəu⁴²/ 老
/ni⁴²/ 新
Kunming /ləu⁵³/
Nanjing /ly²¹²/
Hefei /zz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ly⁵³/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ly⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ly²³/
Suzhou /ly³¹/
Hangzhou /lei⁵³/
Wenzhou /løy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ly³⁵/
Tunxi /li³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ləu⁴¹/
Xiangtan /nəɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /leu³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²³/
Nanning /ly²⁴/
Hong Kong /løy²³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ly³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ly²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /lu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lɔu²¹³/
Rime
Character 縷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力主切
Baxter ljuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lioX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/luə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/lioX/
Wang
Li 		/lĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǚ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		leoi5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǚ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljuX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*oʔ/
English thread

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 縷
Reading # 1/1
No. 8496
Phonetic
component 		婁
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		縷
Old
Chinese 		/*roʔ/

Definitions

縷

  1. thread
  2. detailed, precise
  3. Classifier for wisps, threads, or strands.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

𫃵

Kyūjitai

縷

Kanji

縷

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𫃵)

  1. thread

Readings

  • Go-on: る (ru)←る (ru, historical)
  • Kan-on: る (ru)←る (ru, historical)、ろう (rō)←ろう (rou, historical)
  • Kun: いと (ito, 縷)

Compounds

References

Korean

Hanja

縷 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縷: Hán Nôm readings: lũ, lụa, lũ, lú, lẫu

  1. silk thread (see lụa)
  2. silky (see lụa)
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