祿

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See also: 禄 and 🉡
祿 U+797F, 祿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-797F
← 祾
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 禀 →
祿 U+F93C, 祿
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F93C
← 碌
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 綠 →

Translingual

Han character

祿 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火女弓水 (IFVNE), four-corner 37232, composition ⿰礻彔(GHTV) or ⿰示彔(JK))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 844, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24741
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1264, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2402, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+797F

Chinese

trad. 祿/禄
simp. 禄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
剝 *proːɡ
龣 *kroːɡ, *roːɡ
祿 *roːɡ
淥 *roːɡ, *roɡ
睩 *roːɡ
琭 *roːɡ
箓 *roːɡ
碌 *roːɡ, *roɡ
盝 *roːɡ
娽 *roːɡ, *roɡ
彔 *b·roːɡ
趢 *roːɡ, *roɡ
簶 *roːɡ
綠 *roɡ
逯 *roɡ
錄 *roɡ
醁 *roɡ
騄 *roɡ
菉 *roɡ
籙 *roɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roːɡ) : semantic 示 (“spirit”) + phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧谷切
Baxter luwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/luk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/luk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/luk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ləwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/luk̚/
Wang
Li 		/luk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/luk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		luk6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ luwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁok/
English blessing

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 祿
Reading # 1/1
No. 8541
Phonetic
component 		录
Rime
group 		屋
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		禄
Old
Chinese 		/*roːɡ/

Definitions

祿

  1. blessing; happiness; prosperity
  2. emoluments; official salary

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

祿

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 禄)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ろく (roku)
  • Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祿い)、ふち (fuchi, 祿)

Korean

Hanja

祿 (eumhun 복 록 (bok rok), word-initial (South Korea) 복 녹 (bok nok))

  1. hanja form? of 복/록 (“green, official salary”)
  2. hanja form? of 복/록 (“blessing, happiness, fortune”)
  3. hanja form? of 복/록 (“sacrificial meat”)
  4. hanja form? of 복/록 (“pay salary”)
  5. hanja form? of 복/록 (“bless”)

References

Vietnamese

Han character

祿: Hán Nôm readings: lộc, lốc, trốc

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