髏

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)

1. skull
2. skeleton

References

• KangXi: 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

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Chinese

trad.		髏
simp.		髅

Glyph origin

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

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• 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)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ləu/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/
Li Rong	/lu/
Wang Li	/ləu/
Bernard 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

1. Only used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”).

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Japanese

Kanji

髏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. skull

Readings

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

Compounds

• 髑髏(どくろ) (dokuro)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髏 (MC ləu). 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), South Korea 해골 누 (haegol nu))

1. 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.

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Vietnamese

Han character

髏: Hán Việt readings: lâu

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