僂

See also: 偻

僂	U+50C2, 僂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50C2

← 僁
[U+50C1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僃 →
[U+50C3]

Translingual

Han character

僂 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人中中女 (OLLV), four-corner 2524₄, composition ⿰亻婁)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1045
Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 210, character 18
Unihan data for U+50C2

Chinese

trad.		僂
simp.		偻
nonstandard simp.		𠎪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Small seal script s05885 Transcribed ancient scripts L14501
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	roː, ro
耬	*roː
僂	ɡ·roː, ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	ɡ·roː, ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	roː, ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	roː, ro
廔	*roː
嘍	roː, roːʔ
瞜	roː, ro
簍	roː, roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	roː, ro, *roʔ
鷜	roː, ro
褸	roː, roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	roː, roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	roːʔ, roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	roːʔ, roʔ
鏤	roːs, ro
瘻	roːs, ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	sloːʔ, sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	sroʔ, sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ): semantic 人 (“man; person”) + phonetic 婁 (OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǚ, lóu

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ, ㄌㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ / lau⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǚ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: lü³
  - Yale: lyǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leu
  - Palladius: люй (ljuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lóu
  - Wade–Giles: lou²
  - Yale: lóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
  - Palladius: лоу (lou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: leoi⁵ / lau⁴
  - Yale: léuih / làuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ / lau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ / leo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³/, /lɐu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: luw, luwH

Rime
Character	僂	僂
Reading #	1/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	落侯切	盧候切
Baxter	luw	luwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/	/ləu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/	/ləu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/	/ləu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/	/ləw^H/
Li Rong	/lu/	/lu^H/
Wang Li	/ləu/	/ləu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lə̯u/	/lə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu	lòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau⁴	lau⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·roː/, /*ɡ·roːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僂	僂
Reading #	1/3	2/3
No.	8456	8482
Phonetic component	婁	婁
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	樓	陋
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·roː/	/*ɡ·roːs/

Definitions

僂

hunchbacked; crooked
(literary) to bend (one's body)

Compounds

上僂 / 上偻 (shànglǚ)
佝僂 / 佝偻 (gōulóu)
佝僂病 / 佝偻病 (gōulóubìng)
僂人 / 偻人
傴僂 / 伛偻 (yǔlǚ)
僂儸 / 偻㑩 (lóuluó)
僂指 / 偻指
僂行 / 偻行
垂白上僂 / 垂白上偻
痀僂 / 痀偻
踽僂 / 踽偻

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǚ (lü³)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ

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/

Middle Chinese: ljuX

Rime
Character	僂
Reading #	2/3
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力主切
Baxter	ljuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/lio^X/
Shao Rongfen	/lio^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luə̆^X/
Li Rong	/lio^X/
Wang Li	/lĭu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǚ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·roʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僂
Reading #	3/3
No.	8499
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	縷
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·roʔ/

Definitions

僂

(literary) quick

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liǔ (liu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liǒu
  - Wade–Giles: liu³
  - Yale: lyǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leou
  - Palladius: лю (lju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/

Definitions

僂

only used in 僂翣／偻翣

References

“僂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

僂

(Hyōgai kanji)

bend, stoop

Readings

Go-on: る (ru)
Kan-on: る (ru)、ろう (rō)
Kun: かがむ (kagamu, 僂む)

Korean

Hanja

僂 (eum 루 (ru))

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Vietnamese

Han character

僂: Hán Nôm readings: lũ

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