琭

琭 U+742D, 琭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-742D ← 琬 [U+742C] CJK Unified Ideographs 琮 → [U+742E]

Translingual

Han character

琭 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土弓一水 (MGNME) or 一土女弓水 (MGVNE), four-corner 1713₂, composition ⿰𤣩彔)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 735, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1124, character 9
• Unihan data for U+742D

Chinese

trad.		琭
simp. #		琭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
剝	*proːɡ
龣	*kroːɡ, *roːɡ
祿	*roːɡ
淥	*roːɡ, *roɡ
睩	*roːɡ
琭	*roːɡ
箓	*roːɡ
碌	*roːɡ, *roɡ
盝	*roːɡ
娽	*roːɡ, *roɡ
彔	*b·roːɡ
趢	*roːɡ, *roɡ
簶	*roːɡ
綠	*roɡ
逯	*roɡ
錄	*roɡ
醁	*roɡ
騄	*roɡ
菉	*roɡ
籙	*roɡ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”); possibly related to 玉 (OC *ŋoɡ) and 碭 (OC *l'aːŋ) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lù (lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: luk⁶
    • Yale: luhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: luwk

Rime
Character	琭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧谷切
Baxter	luwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/luk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/luk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwk̚/
Li Rong	/luk̚/
Wang Li	/luk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	luk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	琭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lù
Middle Chinese	‹ luwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁok/
English	precious stone
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	琭
Reading #	1/1
No.	8544
Phonetic component	录
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	禄
Old Chinese	/*roːɡ/
Notes	見老子

Definitions

琭

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of precious stone

Compounds

• 珞琭
• 琭琭
• 琱琭 / 雕琭
• 琭簌
• 瑛琭

Japanese

Kanji

琭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こく (koku)
• Kun: たま (tama)