麓

See also: 梺

麓 U+9E93, 麓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E93 ← 麒 [U+9E92] CJK Unified Ideographs 麔 → [U+9E94]

Translingual

Han character

麓 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木木戈難心 (DDIXP), four-corner 4421₁, composition ⿱林鹿)

Derived characters

• 𨟤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1510, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47658
• Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4732, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9E93

Chinese

trad.		麓
simp. #		麓
alternative forms		㯟 𣝹 𣓏 𪋤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麓
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
鄜	*pʰlo, *roːɡ
鹿	*b·roːɡ
漉	*roːɡ
轆	*roːɡ
簏	*roːɡ
螰	*roːɡ
麓	*roːɡ
騼	*roːɡ
摝	*roːɡ
廘	*roːɡ
蔍	*roːɡ
鏕	*roːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *roːɡ): semantic 林 + phonetic 鹿 (OC *b·roːɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lù (lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk¹ / luk⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): lṳ̆k
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): log⁸
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸loq

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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–Macau)
    • Jyutping: luk¹ / luk⁶
    • Yale: lūk / luhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁷ / luk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug¹ / lug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚⁵/, /lʊk̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃yʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: log⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lo̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lok̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸loq
    • MiniDict: loh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵loq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /loʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: luwk

Rime
Character	麓
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麓
Reading #	1/1
No.	8570
Phonetic component	鹿
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	禄
Old Chinese	/*roːɡ/

Definitions

麓

1. foot of a mountain or hill; foothill
2. (obsolete) forest at the foot of a mountain
3. (obsolete) official who manages a (mountain) forest preserve

Compounds

• 山麓 (shānlù)
• 嶽麓書院 / 岳麓书院
• 旱麓
• 林麓
• 麓山寺碑
• 麓川
• 麓麓

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04757

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 麓

麓

(Jōyō kanji)

1. foot of a mountain

Readings

• Go-on: ろく (roku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ろく (roku, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふもと (fumoto, 麓, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
麓
ふもと Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 麓 – see the following entry.

【ふもと】 [noun] base or foot of a hill or mountain

(This term, 麓, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 麓 (MC luwk). Recorded as Middle Korean 록〮 (lwók) (Yale: lwok) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

麓

麓 (eumhun 산기슭 록 (san'giseuk rok), word-initial (South Korea) 산기슭 녹 (san'giseuk nok))

1. hanja form^? of 록/녹 (“foot of a mountain”)

Compounds

• 단록 (短麓, dallok)
• 산록 (山麓, sallok)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

麓: Hán Nôm readings: lộc

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References

• Nom Foundation