裏

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See also: 裹, 裡, and 里
裏 U+88CF, 裏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88CF
← 裎
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 裐 →
裏 U+F9E7, 裏
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9E7
← 罹
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 裡 →

Translingual

Traditional 裡
Simplified 里
Japanese 裏
Korean 裏

Han character

裏 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜田土女 (YWGV), four-corner 00732, composition ⿴衣里 or ⿳亠里𧘇)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1117, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1582, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3091, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+88CF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rɯʔ): semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 裏 – see 裡 (“in; inside; during; within; etc.”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 裡).

Usage notes

Region 裡 裏
Taiwan standard variant
Hong Kong variant standard

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

裏

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
  • Kun: うら (ura, 裏, Jōyō)


Kanji in this term
裏
うら
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
裡 (rare)

Pronunciation

Noun

裏(うら) • (ura) 

  1. back; behind; other side
    校(こう)舎(しゃ)裏(うら) ― kōsha-ura ― the back of the school; behind the school building
  2. inside
  3. reverse side of a coin ("tails")
  4. (baseball) bottom (of an inning)

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 裡 (MC liX).

Historical Readings
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 솝〯 (Yale: swǒp) 리〯 (Yale: lǐ)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): ~
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

裏 (eumhun 속 리 (sok ri), word-initial (South Korea) 속 이 (sok i))

  1. hanja form? of 리/이 (“within”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

裏: Hán Nôm readings: lí

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