翏

翏 U+7FCF, 翏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FCF ← 翎 [U+7FCE] CJK Unified Ideographs 翐 → [U+7FD0]

Translingual

Han character

翏 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽はね+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸しかばね一いち人にん竹ちく竹ちく (SMOHH), four-corner 1720₂, composition ⿱羽はね㐱)

1. the sound of the wind
2. to soar

Derived characters

• 僇 嘐 𪤗 嫪 嵺 𢄪 憀 摎 漻 㺒 䢧 㬔 樛 熮 璆 膠にかわ 疁 磟 穋 繆(缪) 蟉 䚧 謬(谬) 豂 蹘 賿 轇 醪もろみ 鏐(镠) 飂 髎 䵏
• 勠 剹 鄝 戮 雡 顟 鷚 鹨 寥 蓼たで 廖 瘳 䰘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 956, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1401, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3345, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7FCF

Chinese

trad.		翏
simp. #		翏

Glyph origin

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

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

Unclear, various theories exist.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liù, lù (liu⁴, lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˋ, ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): liu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liâu / liù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liòu
    • Wade–Giles: liu⁴
    • Yale: lyòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liow
    • Palladius: лю (lju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: liu⁶
    • Yale: liuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: liu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: liu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâu / liù
    • Tâi-lô: liâu / liù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liaau, liux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liau²⁴/, /liu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liau²⁴/, /liu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liau¹³/, /liu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liau²⁴/, /liu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liau²³/, /liu²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lew, ljuwH

Rime
Character	翏	翏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	來き (37)	來き (37)
Final (韻いん)	蕭しょう (93)	尤ゆう (136)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	IV	III
Fanqie	落蕭しょう切きり	力ちから救すくい切きり
Baxter	lew	ljuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leu/	/lɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/leu/	/liuH/
Shao Rongfen	/leu/	/liəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛw/	/luwH/
Li Rong	/leu/	/liuH/
Wang Li	/lieu/	/lĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lieu/	/li̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liáo	liù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	liu4	lau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]iw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·rɯːw/, /*ɡ·rɯws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liù
Middle Chinese	‹ ljuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]iw-s/
English	flying high (no pre-Han text)
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	翏	翏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8363	8385
Phonetic component	翏	翏
Rime group	幽かそけ	幽かそけ
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	聊	溜ため
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·rɯːw/	/*ɡ·rɯws/

Definitions

翏

1. (obsolete) to fly high; to soar

Compounds

• 翏翏

 

Japanese

Kanji

翏

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. the sound of the wind
2. to soar

Readings

• On (unclassified): りゅう (ryū)、る (ru)、りょう (ryō)、りく (riku)

Korean

Hanja

翏 • (ryo) (hangeul 료, revised ryo, McCune–Reischauer ryo, Yale lyo)

1. to fly high
2. the sound of the wind