類

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See also: 类
類 U+985E, 類
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-985E
← 顝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顟 →

類 U+F9D0, 類
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9D0
← 紐
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 六 →

Translingual

Japanese 類
Simplified 类
Traditional 類

Han character

類 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+10 in Chinese, 頁+9 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 火大一月金 (FKMBC), four-corner 91486, composition ⿰⿱米犬頁 or ⿹頪犬 or ⿰类頁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1408, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43608
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1926, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4387, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+985E

Chinese

trad. 類
simp. 类
alternative forms 类
𩔖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 類
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (頪) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘱 *ruːls, *ruds
纇 *ruːls
類 *ruːls, *ruds
頪 *roːds
禷 *ruds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruːls, *ruds) : phonetic 頪 (OC *roːds) + semantic 犬.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus (“bone”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 類
Mandarin Beijing /lei⁵¹/
Harbin /lei⁵³/
Tianjin /lei⁵³/
Jinan /luei²¹/
Qingdao /le⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luei³¹²/
Xi'an /luei⁴⁴/
Xining /luɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /luei¹³/
Lanzhou /luei¹³/
Ürümqi /luei²¹³/
Wuhan /nei³⁵/
Chengdu /nuei¹³/
Guiyang /nuei²¹³/
Kunming /nuei²¹²/
Nanjing /luəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /le⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /luei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /luei³⁵/
Hohhot /luei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /le²³/
Suzhou /le̞³¹/
Hangzhou /lei¹³/
Wenzhou /løy²²/
Hui Shexian /le²²/
/ly²²/
Tunxi /lə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /lei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /nəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /lui²¹/
Hakka Meixian /lui⁵³/
Taoyuan /lui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løy²²/
Nanning /lui²²/
Hong Kong /løy²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lui²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /luɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ly⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /lui³¹/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lui³³/
Rime
Character 類
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力遂切
Baxter lwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lwiH/
Li
Rong 		/luiH/
Wang
Li 		/lwiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/lwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		leoi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 類
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lèi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lwijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*u-s/
English category

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 類 類
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7770 7772
Phonetic
component 		頪 頪
Rime
group 		微 隊
Rime
subdivision 		2 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		纇 類
Old
Chinese 		/*ruːls/ /*ruds/

Definitions

類

  1. class; group; kind; category
  2. Classifier for types of things: type, kind, sort
    這類問題／这类问题  ―  zhè lèi wèntí  ―  this type of question
    Synonym: 種／种
  3. (set theory) class
    由所有集合構成的類不是集合。 [MSC, trad.]
    由所有集合构成的类不是集合。 [MSC, simp.]
    Yóu suǒyǒu jíhé gòuchéng de lèi bùshì jíhé.
    The class of all sets is not a set.
  4. (object-oriented programming) class

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 類
Kyūjitai
[1]
類
&#xF9D0;
or
類+&#xFE00;?
類󠄀
類+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
類󠄃
類+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

類

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 類)

  1. kind, sort, type, class, genus, order, family
  2. similar example, parallel

Readings

Usage notes

  • As in historical readings "すゐ", "ずゐ", "つゐ", and "ゆゐ", most dictionaries do not have "るゐ" as a historical reading for 類. According to historical data, the on-reading of 類 is the modern "るい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten has the "るゐ" and related -wi historical on-readings.

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
類
るい
Grade: 4
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
類 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

類(るい) • (rui) 

  1. kind, sort, type, the like
  2. a similar thing, parallel
    過(か)去(こ)に類(るい)を見(み)ない出(で)来(き)事(ごと)
    kako ni rui o minai dekigoto
    an event that has no parallel in history
  3. (taxonomy) a conventional grouping that corresponds to a class or an order
  4. (logic) Short for 類概念 (ruigainen).
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
類
たぐ(い)
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
類 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 類 – see the following entry.
【類たぐい】
sort, kind, type
Alternative spellings
比い, 比, 属
(This term, 類, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ “類”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

類 (eumhun 무리 류 (muri ryu), word-initial (South Korea) 무리 유 (muri yu))

  1. hanja form? of 류/유 (“kind, sort, type, class, genus, order, family”)
  2. hanja form? of 류/유 (“similar example, parallel”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

類: Hán Nôm readings: loại, loài, nòi

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