籟

See also: 籁

籟 U+7C5F, 籟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C5F ← 籞 [U+7C5E] CJK Unified Ideographs 籠 → [U+7C60]

Translingual

Han character

籟 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中金 (HDLC), four-corner 8898₆, composition ⿱𥫗賴)

1. bamboo flute
2. pipe
3. various sounds

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 904, character 44
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26751
• Dae Jaweon: page 1329, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3029, character 19
• Unihan data for U+7C5F

Chinese

trad.		籟
simp.		籁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 籟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
賴	*raːds
籟	*raːds
癩	*raːds, *raːd
瀨	*raːds
藾	*raːds
攋	*raːds, *reːdʔ, *raːd
懶	*raːnʔ
嬾	*raːnʔ
獺	*r̥ʰaːd, *hr'aːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lài (lai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lài
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lài
    • Wade–Giles: lai⁴
    • Yale: lài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lay
    • Palladius: лай (laj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: laai⁶
    • Yale: laaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: lajH

Rime
Character	籟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落蓋切
Baxter	lajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑiH/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lajH/
Li Rong	/lɑiH/
Wang Li	/lɑiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lɑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*rˤa[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	籟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lài
Middle Chinese	‹ lajH ›
Old Chinese	/*rˁa[t]-s/
English	tube
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	籟
Reading #	1/1
No.	7632
Phonetic component	賴
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賴
Old Chinese	/*raːds/

Definitions

籟

1. ancient wind instrument made with bamboo pipes
2. synonym of 簫 / 箫 (xiāo, “xiao”)
3. sound; noise

Compounds

• 人籟 / 人籁
• 吟籟 / 吟籁
• 地籟 / 地籁
• 天籟 / 天籁 (tiānlài)
• 天籟自鳴 / 天籁自鸣
• 林籟 / 林籁
• 百籟 / 百籁
• 神籟自韻 / 神籁自韵
• 萬籟 / 万籁 (wànlài)
• 萬籟俱寂 / 万籁俱寂 (wànlàijùjì)
• 萬籟無聲 / 万籁无声

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 籟

籟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rattling of the wind

Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: らい (rai)
• Kun: ふえ (fue, 籟)

Korean

Hanja

籟 • (roe>noe) (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune–Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

籟: Hán Nôm readings: lới, lài

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