櫓

櫓

See also: 橹

櫓 U+6AD3, 櫓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AD3 ← 櫒 [U+6AD2] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫔 → [U+6AD4]

Translingual

Han character

櫓 (radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木弓田日 (DNWA), four-corner 4796₃, composition ⿰木魯)

1. scull, sweep, oar
2. to row
3. lookout turret on a city wall, movable wooden tower for archers

References

• KangXi: page 560, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15798
• Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1315, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6AD3

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Chinese

trad.		櫓
simp.		橹
variant forms		樐 艪 艣 㯭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (魯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
魯	*raːʔ
櫓	*raːʔ
穭	*raʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːʔ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 魯 (OC *raːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǔ (lu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): ló͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˇ
    • Wade–Giles: lu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luu
    • IPA ^(key): /lu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁵
    • Yale: lóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló͘
    • Tâi-lô: lóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /luo^X/▼

Rime
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luoX/
Pan Wuyun	/luoX/
Shao Rongfen	/loX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɔX/
Li Rong	/loX/
Wang Li	/luX/
Bernard Karlgren	/luoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǔ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ luX ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaʔ/
English	shield (n.)
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	櫓
Reading #	1/1
No.	8526
Phonetic component	魯
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	魯
Old Chinese	/*raːʔ/

Definitions

櫓

1. scull
2. large shield

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Japanese

Kanji

櫓

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろ (ro)
• Kun: おおだて (ōdate); やぐら (yagura, 櫓)

Etymology

Combined from 矢 (ya, “arrow”) and 倉 (kura, “storehouse”). See also Japanese 矢倉 (yagura).

Noun

櫓 (hiragana やぐら, rōmaji yagura)

1. watchtower, turret

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Korean

Hanja

櫓 • (ro>no) (hangeul 로>노, revised ro>no, McCune–Reischauer ro>no, Yale lo>no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

櫓 (lỗ)

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