鹵

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See also: 卤, 滷, and 歯
鹵 U+9E75, 鹵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E75
← 鹴
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鹶 →
⿄ U+2FC4, ⿄
KANGXI RADICAL SALT
← ⿃
 		Kangxi Radicals ⿅ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鹵 (Kangxi radical 197, 鹵+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜田戈戈 (YWII), four-corner 21600, composition ⿴占𠂭)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1507, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47528
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2035, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4609, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9E75

Chinese

trad. 鹵
simp. 卤*
alternative forms 𠧸
𰀖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鹵
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (鹵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
滷 *raːʔ, *r̥ʰjaɡ, *l'eːɡ
鹵 *raːʔ
樐 *raːʔ
蓾 *raːʔ
鏀 *raːʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a bag of salt. Compare 西, 東, 束, 熏, and 柬. Originally unrelated to 卣 and its variant 𠧪.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la (“salt”); compare Proto-Tani *lo (“salt”) (Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鹵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 郎古切
Baxter luX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/luoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/luoX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/loX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɔX/
Li
Rong 		/loX/
Wang
Li 		/luX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/luoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lou5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鹵 鹵
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǔ lǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ luX › ‹ luX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaʔ/ /*ˁaʔ/
English salty (land) rustic, coarse

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 鹵
Reading # 1/1
No. 8519
Phonetic
component 		鹵
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		魯
Old
Chinese 		/*raːʔ/

Definitions

鹵

  1. saline soil
  2. natural salt
  3. (～素) (chemistry) halogen
  4. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鹵 – see 滷 (“thick sauce; to stew in soy sauce and spices; etc.”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 滷).

References

Japanese

Kanji

鹵

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. salt

Readings

  • Go-on: る (ru)
  • Kan-on: ろ (ro)
  • Kun: しお (shio, 鹵)、しおち (shiochi, 鹵)、たて (tate, 鹵)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

鹵 (eumhun 소금 로 (sogeum ro), word-initial (South Korea) 소금 노 (sogeum no))

  1. hanja form? of 노 (“salt”)

Vietnamese

Han character

鹵: Hán Nôm readings: lỗ

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