鎏

鎏	U+938F, 鎏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938F

← 鎎
[U+938E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鎐 →
[U+9390]

Translingual

Han character

鎏 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水山金 (EUC), four-corner 3010₉, composition ⿱流金)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1316, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40696
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4245, character 2
Unihan data for U+938F

Chinese

trad.		鎏
simp. ^#		鎏

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic 流 (OC *ru) + semantic 金 (“gold”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liú (liu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liú
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lióu
  - Wade–Giles: liu²
  - Yale: lyóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
  - Palladius: лю (lju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lau⁴
  - Yale: làuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Definitions

鎏

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) gilt, gold leaf
pure gold
alternative form of 鎦 / 镏

Compounds

鎏金 (liújīn)

Japanese

Kanji

鎏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: る (ru)
Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
Kun: うつくしいがね (utsukushiigane, 鎏しいがね)

Korean

Hanja

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

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