羅

羅 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中女火土 (WLVFG), four-corner 6091₄, composition ⿱罒維)

• 儸(㑩), 囉(啰), 㦬(𰑫), 攞(𫽋), 玀(猡), 曪, 欏(椤), 𤓓(𬊜), 㼈(𭹜), 𦣇(𬂂), 𧟌(𬡠), 纙, 鑼(锣), 饠(𫗩), 𩽰
• 𣱀, 邏(逻), 𠚢, 𦍉, 𪈰(𮬽), 鿡, 𡿏, 蘿(萝), 𭨒, 籮(箩), 𩵇, 㿚

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2928, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F85

• Unihan data for U+F90F

Historical forms of the character 羅
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 网 (“net”) + 維 (“bird (tied with string)”) — net for catching birds. The original version is 𦌴.

Perhaps related to Tibetan དྲ (dra, “net”), རྒྱ (rgya, “net; trap”), Tangut 𗙲 (*rer², “net”) (Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2014; Jacques, 2014).

羅

1. net for catching birds

   天羅地網／天罗地网  ―  tiānluódìwǎng  ―  escape-proof net

2. sieve; sifter
3. gauze
4. to catch (birds) using a net

   門可羅雀／门可罗雀  ―  ménkěluóquè  ―  to have few visitors (literally, “can use a net to catch sparrows at the gate”)

   • 鴛鴦于飛，畢之羅之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鸳鸯于飞，毕之罗之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yuānyāng yú fēi, bì zhī luó zhī.

     The Yellow ducks fly about,
     And are taken with hand-nets and spread-nets.

5. to gather together; to collect

   搜羅／搜罗  ―  sōuluó  ―  to scout out

6. to display; to spread out

   羅列／罗列  ―  luóliè  ―  to display; to enumerate

   星羅棋布／星罗棋布  ―  xīngluóqíbù  ―  to be spread all over the place

7. to sift
8. a surname

   羅貫中／罗贯中  ―  Luó Guànzhōng  ―  Luo Guanzhong (author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms)

   羅大佑／罗大佑  ―  Luó Dàyòu  ―  Lo Ta-yu (Taiwanese singer and songwriter)

9. Used in transcription.

In transcriptions of Buddhist terms, 羅 (MC la) is often used to transcribe Sanskrit ल (la) and Sanskrit र (ra).

From English gross.

羅

1. gross (144)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk
2. (Abbreviation) Latin (language)

• Go-on: ら (ra, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ら (ra, Jōyō)
• Kun: あみ (ami, 羅)、つらねる (tsuraneru, 羅ねる)、うすもの (usumono, 羅)

• (Tokyo) ら (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

羅(ら) • (ra) 

1. lightweight fabric

羅(ら) • (ra) 

1. lightweight fabric
2. Short for 羅甸 (“the Latin language”).
3. (US) Short for 羅府 (“Los Angeles (a city in California, United States)”).

From Middle Chinese 羅 (MC la). Recorded as Middle Korean 라 (la) (Yale: la) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

羅

Wikisource

羅 (eumhun 그물 라 (geumul ra), word-initial (South Korea) 그물 나 (geumul na))

1. hanja form^? of 라/나 (“net; fabric”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

羅 (*-la)

1. a plain imperative verb-final suffix

• Middle Korean: 으〮라〮 (-úlá)/ᄋᆞ〮라〮 (-ólá)
  • Korean: 으라 (-eura)

• 𪜀, 𦉼, 𱺵

羅: Hán Việt readings: la^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
羅: Nôm readings: la^[1][2], là^[1][2], lơ^[1]

羅 • (là)

1. Nôm form of là (“to be”).