婁

See also: 娄
婁 U+5A41, 婁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A41
← 婀
[U+5A40] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 婂 →
[U+5A42]

Translingual

Han character

婁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV) or 中田中女 (LWLV), four-corner 50404, composition ⿳毋中女)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 263, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6383
  • Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1058, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5A41

Chinese
trad. 婁
simp. 娄
alternative forms
 
𡞔
𡝨
𡝤
𡡋
𡡼
𡞔
𡝨
𡝤
𡡋
𡡼
𡜰
𡇔
𣫻

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro) : semantic 爪 (“hands”) + phonetic 角 (OC *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ) + semantic 女 (“woman”). Meaning uncertain.

Later ideogrammic compound (會意) : 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 婁
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ləu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ləu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləw/
Li
Rong		 /lu/
Wang
Li		 /ləu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 lau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 婁
Reading # 1/2
No. 8457
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 樓
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·roː/

Definitions

婁

  1. (Chinese astronomy) the constellation Lóu, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions
  2. (dialectal, of a body) weak; feeble; frail
  3. (dialectal, of melons) overripe and unfit to eat
  4. a surname

Compounds
Derived terms from 婁

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 婁
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /luə̆/
Li
Rong		 /lio/
Wang
Li		 /lĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lǘ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 leoi4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 婁
Reading # 2/2
No. 8493
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 慺
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·ro/

Definitions

婁

  1. (obsolete) to drag; to trail; to pull

Compounds
Derived terms from 婁

Pronunciation

Definitions

婁

  1. (obsolete) to tether oxen

Etymology 4
For pronunciation and definitions of 婁 – see 屢 (“repeatedly; frequently”).
(This character, 婁, is a variant form of 屢.)

References

Japanese

Kanji
婁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. tie

Readings
  • Go-on: る (ru)
  • Kan-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kun: つなぐ (tsunagu, 婁ぐ); ひく (hiku, 婁く)

Compounds
  • 牟婁(むろ) (Muro)

Korean

Hanja

婁 (eum 루 (ru))

  1. a constellation
  2. to wear

Vietnamese

Han character

婁: Hán Nôm readings: lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ

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