蕾

蕾 U+857E, 蕾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-857E ← 蕽 [U+857D] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕿 → [U+857F]

Translingual

Han character

蕾 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿一月田 (TMBW), four-corner 4460₃, composition ⿱艹雷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1059, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32067
• Dae Jaweon: page 1523, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3300, character 18
• Unihan data for U+857E

Chinese

trad.		蕾
simp. #		蕾
alternative forms		藟 obsolete

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
摞	*roːl, *roːls
騾	*roːl
螺	*roːl
蔂	*roːl, *rul
虆	*roːl, *rul
瘰	*roːlʔ
礌	*ruːl, *ruːls
雷	*ruːl
擂	*ruːl, *ruːls
攂	*ruːl, *ruːls
礧	*ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
儡	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
瓃	*ruːl, *rul, *ruls
櫑	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鑘	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鐳	*ruːl
畾	*ruːl
轠	*ruːl, *rulʔ
罍	*ruːl
蕾	*ruːlʔ
癗	*ruːlʔ
磥	*ruːlʔ
累	*ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols
儽	*ruːls, *rul
樏	*rolʔ, *rul
鸓	*rul, *rulʔ
嫘	*rul
纍	*rul, *ruls
欙	*rul
纝	*rul
壘	*rulʔ
櫐	*rulʔ
蘽	*rulʔ
藟	*rulʔ
讄	*rulʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěi (lei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ / leoi⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lúi / lé
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶le

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lěi
    • Wade–Giles: lei³
    • Yale: lěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
    • Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵ / leoi⁴
    • Yale: léuih / lèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ / loey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ / lêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³/, /lɵy̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lúi
    • Tâi-lô: luí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /lui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lui⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lé
    • Tâi-lô: lé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /le⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /le⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶le
    • MiniDict: le^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³le
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /le²³/

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• Middle Chinese: lwojX

Rime
Character	蕾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落猥切
Baxter	lwojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/luoiX/
Shao Rongfen	/luɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwəjX/
Li Rong	/luᴀiX/
Wang Li	/luɒiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lěi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ruːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蕾
Reading #	1/1
No.	7719
Phonetic component	畾
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	磥
Old Chinese	/*ruːlʔ/

Definitions

蕾

1. bud (of a flower)

Compounds

• 古典芭蕾 (gǔdiǎn bālěi)
• 味蕾 (wèilěi)
• 德蕾莎 (Délěishā)
• 水上芭蕾
• 現代芭蕾 / 现代芭蕾
• 白芭蕾
• 空中芭蕾
• 花蕾 (huālěi)
• 芭蕾
• 芭蕾舞
• 蓓蕾 (bèilěi)
• 蕾絲 / 蕾丝 (lěisī)

References

• “蕾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

蕾

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Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 蕾

蕾

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: らい (rai)
• Kun: つぼみ (tsubomi, 蕾)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蕾
つぼみ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
莟

Noun

蕾(つぼみ) • (tsubomi) 

1. bud (of a flower)

Proper noun

蕾(つぼみ) • (Tsubomi) 

1. a female given name

References

• “^▲蕾”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕾: Hán Nôm readings: lôi, lỗi

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