蘿

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See also: 萝
蘿 U+863F, 蘿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-863F
← 蘾
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 虀 →

蘿 U+F910, 蘿
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F910
← 羅
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 螺 →

Translingual

Han character

蘿 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中土 (TWLG), four-corner 44914, composition ⿱艹羅)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1071, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1538, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3336, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+863F

Chinese

trad. 蘿
simp. 萝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (羅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羅 *raːl
蘿 *raːl
籮 *raːl
儸 *raːl
饠 *raːl
欏 *raːl, *raːlʔ
囉 *raːl
鑼 *raːl
邏 *raːl, *raːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːl) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 羅 (OC *raːl).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lô/lô͘ - literary;
  • lâ - vernacular.
Note:
  • 3lu - standard;
  • 3lau - dated, preserved in 蘿蔔.
    Rime
    Character 蘿
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 來 (37)
    Final (韻) 歌 (94)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 魯何切
    Baxter la
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/lɑ/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/lɑ/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/lɑ/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/la/
    Li
    Rong         		/lɑ/
    Wang
    Li         		/lɑ/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/lɑ/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		luó
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		lo4
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 蘿
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 8677
    Phonetic
    component         		羅
    Rime
    group         		歌
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		羅
    Old
    Chinese         		/*raːl/

    Definitions

    蘿

    1. (botany) creeping or trailing plants

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    蘿

    (Hyōgai kanji)

    1. creeper

    Readings

    Compounds

    Etymology

    Kanji in this term
    蘿
    かげ
    Hyōgai
    kun'yomi
     蘿 on Japanese Wikipedia

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    蘿(かげ) • (kage) 

    1. Synonym of 日陰の蔓 (hikage no kazura, “wolf's-foot clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum”)

    Korean

    Hanja

    蘿 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, revised ra>na, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    蘿: Hán Nôm readings: la, lá

    1. leaf

    Compounds

    Usage notes

    • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for leaf is lá.
    • This character only means leaf in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning. 葉 means silver in Chinese and Japanese.
    • This is the regular form of this character. The common form is 𦲿.

    References

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