榴

榴 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木竹竹田 (DHHW), four-corner 4796₂, composition ⿰木留)

• 籕, 𡂆

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 544, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15280
• Dae Jaweon: page 932, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1267, character 5
• Unihan data for U+69B4

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *m·ru): semantic 木 + phonetic 留 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus).

The botanist Li Shizhen suggests that 榴 is the same as 瘤 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus, “lump, tumour”), as the pomegranate fruit resembles cancerous outgrowths on the body; however, this is likely folk etymology, albeit one that perhaps influenced the choice of phonetic component for the Chinese glyph's formation. The reconstructed consonants of this part equal those of a wanderwort for the pomegranate present in Arabic رُمَّان (rummān, “pomegranate”), see it for other languages.

榴

1. short for 石榴 (shíliú, “pomegranate”)
2. a surname

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pomegranate

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: ざくろ (zakuro, 榴)

榴 • (ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune–Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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榴: Hán Nôm readings: lựu

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