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呂
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Translingual
Han character
呂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口 (RHR), four-corner 60600, composition ⿳口丿口)
Derived characters
Descendants
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 181, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3386
- Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 577, character 12
- Unihan data for U+5442
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Chinese
Glyph origin
Ji Xusheng (2014): Pictogram (象形): two blocks of metal. Original form of 鋁 (“ingot”). Later incorporated into 金 (“metal”) as a semantic component.
Shuowen: Pictogram (象形) of two vertebrae.
Later phonetically borrowed for to represent 膂 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “spine”) and 呂 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “music notes”). The character was later borrowed phonetically to mean "I; give" and modified and stylized into 予.
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ra-t (“bone”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Northern Min (KCR): lṳ̌
- Eastern Min (BUC): lṳ̄
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ly3
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6li; 6liu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: lǚ
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔ
- Wade–Giles: lü3
- Yale: lyǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leu
- Palladius: люй (ljuj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ly²¹⁴/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: nü3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ly
- Sinological IPA (key): /ny⁵³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: leoi5
- Yale: léuih
- Cantonese Pinyin: loey5
- Guangdong Romanization: lêu5
- Sinological IPA (key): /lɵy̯¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: lui4
- Sinological IPA (key): /lui²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî
- Hakka Romanization System: liˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: li1
- Sinological IPA: /li²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: liˋ
- Sinological IPA: /li⁵³/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lṳ̌
- Sinological IPA (key): /ly²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̄
- Sinological IPA (key): /l̃y³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ly3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: lṳ̂
- Sinological IPA (key): /ly⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ly3
- Sinological IPA (key): /ly³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lū
- Tâi-lô: lū
- Phofsit Daibuun: lu
- IPA (Taipei): /lu³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /lu²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang)
- (Hokkien: Jinjiang)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lǐ
- Tâi-lô: lǐ
- IPA (Jinjiang): /li³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī
- Tâi-lô: lī
- Phofsit Daibuun: li
- IPA (Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan): /li³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²/
- (Hokkien: Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līr
- Tâi-lô: līr
- IPA (Kinmen): /lɯ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lú
- Tâi-lô: lú
- Phofsit Daibuun: luo
- IPA (Xiamen): /lu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lír
- Tâi-lô: lír
- IPA (Quanzhou): /lɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Longyan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí
- Tâi-lô: lí
- Phofsit Daibuun: lie
- IPA (Longyan): /li²¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
Note:
- lū/lǐr/lī/līr - vernacular, and for surname;
- lú/lír/lí - literary.
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: ljoX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]aʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raʔ/
Definitions
呂
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, anatomy) spine
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, music) even-numbered notes in shí'èrlǜ
- Lü, a state in China that existed in the early years of the Spring and Autumn Period
- a surname
Descendants
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
呂
Readings
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 呂 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 呂, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Etymology 2
Proper noun
呂 • (Ryo)
- an orthographic borrowing of the Chinese surname 呂 / 吕 (lǚ), Lu
Korean
Hanja
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Vietnamese
Han character
呂: Hán Nôm readings: lã, lả, lỡ, lử, lữa, rả, rứa, trả, trở, lớ, lở, lữ
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