鏤

See also: 𨩐 and 镂

鏤	U+93E4, 鏤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93E4

← 鏣
[U+93E3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鏥 →
[U+93E5]

Translingual

Traditional	鏤
Shinjitai (extended)	𨩐
Simplified	镂

Han character

鏤 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金中中女 (CLLV), four-corner 8514₄, composition ⿰釒婁)

carve, inlay, engrave
tattoo

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1320, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40820
Dae Jaweon: page 1820, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4248, character 12
Unihan data for U+93E4

Chinese

trad.		鏤
simp.		镂

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lòu (lou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lô / lô͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lòu
  - Wade–Giles: lou⁴
  - Yale: lòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: low
  - Palladius: лоу (lou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lau⁶
  - Yale: lauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô / lô͘
  - Tâi-lô: lô / lôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: looi, loo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lo²⁴/, /lɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lo²⁴/, /lɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo¹³/, /lɔ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴/, /lɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³/, /lɔ²³/

Middle Chinese: lju, luwH

Rime
Character	鏤	鏤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	力朱切	盧候切
Baxter	lju	luwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨo/	/ləu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lio/	/ləu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/lio/	/ləu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luə̆/	/ləw^H/
Li Rong	/lio/	/lu^H/
Wang Li	/lĭu/	/ləu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯u/	/lə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǘ	lòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi⁴	lau⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤo-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*roːs/, /*ro/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鏤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lòu
Middle Chinese	‹ luw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁo-s/
English	carve
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	鏤	鏤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8480	8492
Phonetic component	婁	婁
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	陋	慺
Old Chinese	/*roːs/	/*ro/

Definitions

鏤

carve, inlay, engrave
tattoo

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	𨩐
Print standard	鏤

Kanji

鏤

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𨩐)

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Readings

Go-on: る (ru)
Kan-on: る (ru)、ろう (rō)
Kun: ちりばめる (chiribameru, 鏤める)

Compounds

彫心鏤骨(ちょうしんるこつ) (chōshinrukotsu)
鏤刻(るこく) (rukoku)
鏤骨(るこつ) (rukotsu)

Korean

Hanja

鏤 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鏤: Hán Việt readings: lũ

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