髝

髝

髝 U+9ADD, 髝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ADD ← 髜 [U+9ADC] CJK Unified Ideographs 髞 → [U+9ADE]

Translingual

Han character

髝 (radical 189, 高+12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜月火火尸 (YBFFS), composition ⿰高勞)

References

• KangXi: page 1452, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45340
• Dae Jaweon: page 1982, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4595, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9ADD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		髝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (勞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
勞	*raːw, *raːws
撈	*raːw, *reːw
嘮	*ruːw, *hr'aːw
癆	*raːw, *raːw, *raːws
簩	*raːw
蟧	*raːw, *reːw
憥	*raːw
澇	*raːwʔ, *raːws
僗	*raːws
髝	*raːws
膋	*reːw
犖	*rraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːws) : semantic 高 (“tall”) + phonetic 勞 (OC *raːw, *raːws).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lào (lao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: lao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
    • IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁴
    • Yale: lòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lou̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /lɑu/, /lɑu^H/▼

Rime
Character	髝	髝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	魯刀切	郎到切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/law/	/lawH/
Li Rong	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Wang Li	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑu/	/lɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	láo	lào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髝
Reading #	1/1
No.	7660
Phonetic component	勞
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嫪
Old Chinese	/*raːws/

Definitions

髝

1. Only used in 髝髞.