櫓

See also: 橹

櫓	U+6AD3, 櫓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AD3

← 櫒
[U+6AD2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

櫔 →
[U+6AD4]

櫓	U+F931, 櫓 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F931

← 擄
[U+F930]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

爐 →
[U+F932]

Translingual

Han character

櫓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木弓田日 (DNWA), four-corner 4796₃, composition ⿰木魯)

scull, sweep, oar
to row
lookout turret on a city wall, movable wooden tower for archers

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15798
Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1315, character 2
Unihan data for U+6AD3

Unihan data for U+F931

Chinese

trad.		櫓
simp.		橹
alternative forms		樐艪艣／𫇛㯭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
魯	*raːʔ
櫓	*raːʔ
穭	*raʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raːʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 魯 (OC *raːʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǔ (lu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ló͘
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǔ
  - Wade–Giles: lu³
  - Yale: lǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luu
  - Palladius: лу (lu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lou⁵
  - Yale: lóuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló͘
  - Tâi-lô: lóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶lu
  - MiniDict: lu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lu²³/

Middle Chinese: luX

Rime
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎古切
Baxter	luX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/luo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/lo^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɔ^X/
Li Rong	/lo^X/
Wang Li	/lu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lou⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*raːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ lu^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaʔ/
English	shield (n.)
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	櫓
Reading #	1/1
No.	8526
Phonetic component	魯
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	魯
Old Chinese	/*raːʔ/

Definitions

櫓

scull
large shield

Compounds

干櫓
搖櫓 / 摇橹 (yáolǔ)
樓櫓 / 楼橹
檣櫓 / 樯橹
櫓帆船 / 橹帆船
櫓棹
櫓槳 / 橹桨
烽櫓 / 烽橹
譙櫓 / 谯橹
轒櫓 / 𮝷橹

Japanese

Kanji

櫓

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: る (ru)
Kan-on: ろ (ro)
Kun: おおだて (ōdate, 櫓)、やぐら (yagura, 櫓)

Etymology

Compound of 矢 (ya, “arrow”) and 倉 (kura, “storehouse”). See also 矢倉 (yagura).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やぐら [yàgúrá] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [ja̠ɡɯ̟ɾa̠]

Noun

櫓(やぐら) • (yagura)

watchtower, turret

Korean

Hanja

櫓 (eumhun 방패 로 (bangpae ro), word-initial (South Korea) 방패 노 (bangpae no))

hanja form^? of 로 (“(North Korea) oar”)
hanja form^? of 노 (“(South Korea) oar”)

Vietnamese

Han character

櫓: Hán Nôm readings: lỗ

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