鏐

See also: 镠

鏐 U+93D0, 鏐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93D0 ← 鏏 [U+93CF] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏑かぶら → [U+93D1]

Translingual

Han character

鏐 (Kangxi radical 167, 金きむ+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金きむ尸しかばね一いち竹たけ (CSMH), four-corner 8712₂, composition ⿰釒翏)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1319, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40789
• Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4253, character 4
• Unihan data for U+93D0

Chinese

trad.		鏐
simp.		镠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (翏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
醪もろみ	*ruːw
嫪	*ruːw, *rɯːws
嘐	*ɡ·ruːw, *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw
賿	*rrɯːw, *rrɯːwʔ
顟	*rrɯːw
膠にかわ	*krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw
轇	*krɯːw
摎	*krɯːw, *rɯw
髎	*riw, *rɯːw
熮	*riws, *rɯːw, *rɯwʔ
廖	*rɯːw, *rɯːws, *rɯws
憀	*rɯːw, *rɯw
豂	*rɯːw
漻	*rɯːw
翏	*ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws
寥	*rɯːw, *rɯːwɢ
蓼たで	*rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ
鄝	*rɯːwʔ
鷚	*mɡlɯw, *rɯwɢs, *mɡrɯw, *ɡrɯw
繆	*mlɯw, *mɡrɯw, *mrɯws, *mlɯwɢ
勠	*rɯw, *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
疁	*rɯw
飂	*rɯw, *rɯws
鏐	*rɯw, *rɯw
僇	*rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
瘳	*r̥ʰɯw
璆	*ɡlɯw, *ɡrɯw
謬	*mrɯws
蟉	*ɡ·rɯw, *ɡrɯw, *ɡrɯwʔ
樛	*krɯw
磟	*ruːwɢ, *rɯwɢ
戮	*rɯwɢ
剹	*rɯwɢ
穋	*rɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *rɯw, *rɯw) : semantic 金きむ (“gold”) + phonetic 翏 (OC *ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liú (liu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liú
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lióu
    • Wade–Giles: liu²
    • Yale: lyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
    • Palladius: лю (lju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ljuw, liw

Rime
Character	鏐	鏐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	來き (37)	來き (37)
Final (韻いん)	尤ゆう (136)	幽かそけ (138)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	力ちから求もとむ切きり	力ちから幽かそけ切きり
Baxter	ljuw	liw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨu/	/liɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/liu/	/lɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/liəu/	/lieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luw/	/ljiw/
Li Rong	/liu/	/liĕu/
Wang Li	/lĭəu/	/liəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯ə̯u/	/lieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liú	liú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau4	lau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]iw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鏐	鏐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liú	liú
Middle Chinese	‹ ljiw ›	‹ ljuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]iw/	/*[r]iw/
English	fine gold	fine gold
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	鏐	鏐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8378	8392
Phonetic component	翏	翏
Rime group	幽かそけ	幽かそけ
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	劉りゅう	鏐
Old Chinese	/*rɯw/	/*rɯw/

Definitions

鏐

1. (literary) gold of high purity

Japanese

Kanji

鏐

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. gold

Readings

• On (unclassified): りゅう (ryū)