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ろう U+5F04, 弄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F04

[U+5F03]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5F05]
U+F943, 弄
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F943

[U+F942]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F944]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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ろう (Kangxi radical 55, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input いち廿にじゅう (MGT), four-corner 10441, composition おう)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 353, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9596
  • Dae Jaweon: page 669, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 515, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5F04

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character ろう
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい会意かいい) : たま (jade) + (hands) – play with a jade artefact using one's hands.

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.
ろう
alternative forms

Compared with Khmer លួង (luəng, to console; to cheer; to coax; to flatter) < Old Khmer lvaṅ (to cheer, amuse, entertain, divert) < Pre-Angkorian Khmer loṅ. The Khmer initial consonant does not agree with Old Chinese; perhaps the Khmer word is a post-Han loan (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • lâe̤ng - colloquial;
  • lông - literary.
Note:
  • lāng - colloquial;
  • lōng - literary.

Rime
Character ろう
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) (37)
Final (いん) ひがし (1)
Tone (調しらべ) Departing (H)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) I
Fanqie みつぎきり
Baxter luwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/luŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/luŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/luŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ləwŋH/
Li
Rong
/luŋH/
Wang
Li
/luŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/luŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lung6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character ろう
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nòng
Middle
Chinese
‹ luwngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˁoŋ-s/
English manipulate, play with

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 ろう
Reading # 1/1
No. 9586
Phonetic
component
ろう
Rime
group
ひがし
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
ろう
Old
Chinese
/*roːŋs/

Definitions

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ろう

  1. to play with; to play around with; to fiddle with; to fondle
    しんてきこれ命運めいうんろうひと [MSC, trad.]
    しんてきこれいのちろうひと [MSC, simp.]
    Zhēnde shì mìngyùn nòng rén. [Pinyin]
    It must be a quirk of fate.
  2. to enjoy; to play
  3. trick; magic
  4. to make fun of; to tease; to bully
  5. to show off; to make a show of
  6. (Southern Min) to amuse (a child)
  7. (music) to play (a musical instrument); to perform
  8. (music) ditty
  9. to do; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with
  10. to make ... do/become ...; to cause ... to do ...
    しょうろうりょう [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Tā bǎ xiǎohái nòng kū le. [Pinyin]
    He made the kid cry.
  11. (colloquial) to cause someone to become pregnant
  12. (Southern Min) to shake off; to shake out
  13. to marry
  14. to investigate; to look into
  15. to get; to obtain; to fetch
    しょ哪兒ろうてき [MSC, trad.]
    哪儿ろうてき [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ zhè shū nǎr nòng de ya. [Pinyin]
    Where did you get the book?
  16. to decorate; to dress up; to put on make-up

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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ろう
alternative forms

Possibly from an ancient regional variant of ちまた (OC *ɡroːŋs, “alley”).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • lāng - colloquial;
  • lōng - literary.

Rime
Character ろう
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) (37)
Final (いん) ひがし (1)
Tone (調しらべ) Departing (H)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) I
Fanqie みつぎきり
Baxter luwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/luŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/luŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/luŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ləwŋH/
Li
Rong
/luŋH/
Wang
Li
/luŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/luŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lung6

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ろう

  1. (historical) lane in palace
  2. (regional) alleyway; lane; apartment complex (especially in Shanghai)
    やすとおみちいちはちろうやすみちいちはちろう  ―  Ānyuǎn Lù Yībā Lòng  ―  18 Anyuan Road
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Compounds

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Etymology 3

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ろう
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Probably from Lingao ȵam¹ (to play) (Fu, 2008).

Pronunciation

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Particularly: “Hainanese”

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ろう

  1. (Hainanese, Leizhou Min) to play; to have fun
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Compounds

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Further reading

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Japanese

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Kanji

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ろう

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. tamper with

Readings

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Korean

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Hanja

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ろう (eumhun 희롱할 (huironghal rong), word-initial (South Korea) 희롱할 (huironghal nong))

  1. hanja form? of / (do, play or fiddle with, joke)
  2. hanja form? of / (alley)
  3. hanja form? of / (naughty)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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ろう: Hán Nôm readings: lộng, lóng, lồng, luồng, lòng, lụng, trổng

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