葫蘆

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See also: 葫芦

Chinese

Etymology 1

phonetic
trad. (葫蘆)
simp. (葫芦)
2nd round simp. 胡芦
alternative forms 壺蘆壶芦
胡盧胡卢
胡蘆胡芦
壺盧壶卢
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Guoyu Cidian has "以其果實狀似壺及蘆,故稱為「壺蘆」", but how does it look like reed?”) Compare also (OC *ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs, “gourd”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (32) (37)
Final () (23) (23) (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I I
Fanqie
Baxter hu xu lu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuo/ /huo/ /luo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuo/ /huo/ /luo/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣo/ /xo/ /lo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔ/ /hɔ/ /lɔ/
Li
Rong
/ɣo/ /xo/ /lo/
Wang
Li
/ɣu/ /xu/ /lu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuo/ /xuo/ /luo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wu4 fu1 lou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hu › ‹ lu ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁa/ /*C.rˁa/
English gourd lúwěi 蘆葦 reed

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2
No. 4244 4252 5203
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰaː/ /*ɡaː/ /*raː/

Noun

葫蘆

  1. (~瓜) bottle gourd; calabash
  2. (Wuhan Mandarin) person that can drink a large amount of water
  3. (Loudi Xiang) bottle
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (葫蘆):

Others:

Etymology 2

rush; reed; Phragmites communis
trad. (葫蘆)
simp. (葫芦)
alternative forms 夫佬
俘虜俘虏

Phono-semantic matching of English full.

Pronunciation


Noun

葫蘆

  1. (Cantonese, card games) full house
Synonyms

See also

Poker hands in Mandarin · 撲克牌扑克牌 (layout · text)
單張单张 (dānzhāng), 高牌,
烏龍乌龙 (wūlóng)
(duì), 對子对子 (duìzi),
一對一对 (yīduì)
兩對两对 三張三张, 三條三条 (sāntiáo) (shùn), 順子顺子 (shùnzi)
同花 (tónghuā) 三帶二三带二 四張四张, 四條四条 (sìtiáo),
鐵扇铁扇, 鐵支铁支
同花順同花顺 (tónghuāshùn) 同花大順同花大顺 (tónghuā dàshùn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Hyōgai

Hyōgai
kan'on
Alternative spellings
葫盧
胡盧

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 葫蘆 (MC hu|xu lu, literally “gourd + rushes, reeds”). Compare modern Min Nan reading hô͘-lô͘.

Pronunciation

Noun

()() (koro

  1. bottle gourd, calabash

Usage notes

This term koro appears to be quite rare. The term 瓢箪 (hyōtan) is used more commonly to mean gourd or calabash.