雩婁

雩婁

Chinese

		summer sacrifice for rain	(star); surname
trad. (雩婁)		雩	婁
simp. (雩娄)		雩	娄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yúlóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄌㄡˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yúlóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄌㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yúlóu
    • Wade–Giles: Yü²-lou²
    • Yale: Yú-lóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yulou
    • Palladius: Юйлоу (Jujlou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ loʊ̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hɨo  ləu/

Rime
Character	雩	婁
Reading #	2/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	況于切	落侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨo/	/ləu/
Pan Wuyun	/hio/	/ləu/
Shao Rongfen	/xio/	/ləu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huə̆/	/ləw/
Li Rong	/xio/	/lu/
Wang Li	/xĭu/	/ləu/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯u/	/lə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xū	lóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi1	lau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a  [r]o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷla  ɡ·roː|ɡ·ro/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雩	婁
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú	lóu
Middle Chinese	‹ hju ›	‹ lju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a/	/*[r]o/
English	sacrifice for rain	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	雩	婁	婁
Reading #	1/2	1/2	2/2
No.	15693	8457	8493
Phonetic component	于	婁	婁
Rime group	魚	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	訏	樓	慺
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷla/	/*ɡ·roː/	/*ɡ·ro/

Proper noun

雩婁

1. (historical) Yulou County (north of present-day Jinzhai County)