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See also: 娄

婁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV) or 中田中女 (LWLV), four-corner 50404, composition ⿳毋中女)

trad. 婁
simp. 娄
alternative forms 𡞔𡝨𡝤𡡋𡡼𡞔𡝨𡝤𡡋𡡼𡜰𡇔𣫻

| | 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 |

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro) : semantic 爪 (“hands”) + phonetic 角 (OC *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ) + semantic 女 (“woman”). Meaning uncertain.

Later ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”).

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) lóu
MiddleChinese ‹ lju ›
OldChinese /*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)
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 婁
Reading # 1/2
No. 8457
Phoneticcomponent 婁
Rimegroup 侯
Rimesubdivision 0
CorrespondingMC rime 樓
OldChinese /*ɡ·roː/

婁

  1. (Chinese astronomy) the constellation Lóu, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions
  2. (dialectal, of a body) weak; feeble; frail
  3. (dialectal, of melons) overripe and unfit to eat
  4. a surname
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婁
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) lóu
MiddleChinese ‹ lju ›
OldChinese /*[r]o/
English drag, trail (v.)
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 婁
Reading # 2/2
No. 8493
Phoneticcomponent 婁
Rimegroup 侯
Rimesubdivision 0
CorrespondingMC rime 慺
OldChinese /*ɡ·ro/

婁

  1. (obsolete) to drag; to trail; to pull

婁

  1. (obsolete) to tether oxen

For pronunciation and definitions of 婁 – see 屢 (“repeatedly; frequently”).
(This character is a variant form of 屢).

婁

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. frequently
  2. tie

婁 (eum 루 (ru))

  1. a constellation
  2. to wear

婁: Hán Nôm readings: lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ

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