髏

See also: 髅

髏	U+9ACF, 髏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ACF

← 髎
[U+9ACE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

髐 →
[U+9AD0]

Translingual

Han character

髏 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月月中中女 (BBLLV), four-corner 7524₄, composition ⿰骨婁)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1450, character 44
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45267
Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4417, character 7
Unihan data for U+9ACF

Chinese

trad.		髏
simp.		髅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髏
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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): lóu (lou²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lóu
  - Wade–Giles: lou²
  - Yale: lóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
  - Palladius: лоу (lou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lau⁴
  - Yale: làuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: luw

Rime
Character	髏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落侯切
Baxter	luw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/
Li Rong	/lu/
Wang Li	/ləu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*roː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髏
Reading #	1/1
No.	8459
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	樓
Old Chinese	/*roː/

Definitions

髏

used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”)
used in 骷髏／骷髅 (kūlóu, “skull”)

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	髅
Print standard	髏

Kanji

髏

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髅)

skull

Readings

Go-on: る (ru)
Kan-on: ろう (rō)
Kan’yō-on: ろ (ro)

Compounds

髑髏(どくろ) (dokuro)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髏 (MC luw). Recorded as Middle Korean 루 (lwu) (Yale: lwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

髏 (eumhun 해골 루 (haegol ru), word-initial (South Korea) 해골 누 (haegol nu))

hanja form^? of 루/누 (“skull”)

Compounds

촉루 (髑髏, chongnu)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

髏: Hán Việt readings: lâu

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