騾

騾 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田女火 (SFWVF), four-corner 7639₃, composition ⿰馬累)

• 𩇍

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1444, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44957
• Dae Jaweon: page 1968, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4575, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9A3E

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *roːl): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 累 (OC *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols). Written as 驘 in Shuowen.

Possibly a variant of 驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”); ultimately possibly from an Iranian language, such as Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬭𐬀 (xara, “donkey”) (Abedi et al., 2024a, 2024b).

騾

1. mule (offspring of a donkey and a horse, sometimes specifically the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse) (Classifier: 匹 m; 頭／头 m; 隻／只 mn)

   • 趙簡子有兩白騾而甚愛之。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     赵简子有两白骡而甚爱之。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE

     Zhào Jiǎnzǐ yǒu liǎng bái luó ér shèn ài zhī. [Pinyin]

     Viscount Jian of Zhao had two white mules which he liked very much.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: ら (ra)
• Kan-on: ら (ra)
• Kun: らば (raba)

騾 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, revised ra>na, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

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騾: Hán Nôm readings: loa, la

(classifier 𡥵 (con)) 騾

1. chữ Nôm form of la (“a horse-donkey hybrid; a mule or a hinny”)