# 閭

| 閭 | U+95AD, &#38317; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95AD |
| ← 閬 [U+95AC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 閮 → [U+95AE] |
| 閭 | U+F986, &#63878; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F986 |
| ← 礪 [U+F985] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 驪 → [U+F987] |

## Translingual
### Han character

閭 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日弓口竹口 (ANRHR) or 日弓口口 (ANRR), four-corner 7760$_6$, composition ⿵門呂 or ⿵門吕)

#### Derived characters

* 𢣻, 𤁵, 櫚, 䥨, 䕡, 𥶆

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1335, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41334
* Dae Jaweon: page 1841, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4296, character 3
* Unihan data for U+95AD
* Unihan data for U+F986

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 櫚 | *ra |
| 閭 | *ra |
| 吕 | *ɡ·raʔ |
| 侣 | *raʔ |
| 梠 | *raʔ |
| 郘 | *raʔ |
| 絽 | *raʔ |
| 莒 | *klaʔ |
| 筥 | *klaʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ra) : semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 呂 (OC *ɡ·raʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǘ (lü$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi$^4$ / leoi$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lî / lû
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǘ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyú
*** Wade–Giles: lü$^2$
*** Yale: lyú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liu
*** Palladius: люй (ljuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leoi$^4$ / leoi$^5$
*** Yale: lèuih / léuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loey$^4$ / loey$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lêu$^4$ / lêu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵy̯²¹/, /lɵy̯¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lî / lû
*** Tâi-lô: lî / lû
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lii, luu
*** IPA (Xiamen): /li²⁴/, /lu²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /li²⁴/, /lu²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /li¹³/, /lu¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /li²⁴/, /lu²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /li²³/, /lu²³/
* Middle Chinese: ljo
Rime :
| Character | 閭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力居切 |
| Baxter | ljo |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɨʌ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /liɔ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /liɔ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lɨə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /liɔ/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭo/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /li̯wo/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lǘ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | leoi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ra/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 閭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8578 |
| Phonetic component | 呂 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 臚 |
| Old Chinese | /*ra/ |

### Definitions

閭
* (literary) gate of a lane or alley
* (literary) neighborhood; hamlet; lane; alley
    From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Zǎi gào lǘshǐ, lǘshǐ shū wéi èr, qí yī cáng zhū lǘ fǔ, qí yī xiàn zhū zhōushǐ. [Pinyin]
    The officer also informed the secretaries of the hamlets, who made out two copies of it. One of these was deposited in the archives of the village, and the other was presented to the secretary of the larger circuit.
** (historical) village or neighbourhood of twenty-five families (according to certain historical sources of various authenticity)
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 俚閭／俚闾
* 倚閭／倚闾 (yǐlǘ)
* 尾閭／尾闾 (wěilǘ)
* 常閭／常闾
* 林閭／林闾
* 東閭／东闾 (Dōnglǘ)
* 棕閭／棕闾
* 鄉閭／乡闾
* 門閭／门闾
* 閭丘／闾丘 (Lǘqiū)
* 閭伍／闾伍
* 閭左／闾左
* 閭巷／闾巷
* 閭師／闾师
* 閭胥／闾胥
* 閭鄰／闾邻
* 閭里 (lǘlǐ)
* 閭長／闾长
* 閭門／闾门
* 閭閈／闾闬
* 閭閻／闾阎 (lǘyán)
* 闔閭／阖闾

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* rural area

#### Readings

* Go-on: ろ (ro)
* Kan-on: りょ (ryo)
* Kun: さと (sato, 閭)、まち (machi, 閭)、むら (mura, 閭)

### Noun

閭(りょ) • (ryo)
* gate of a village

## Korean
### Hanja

閭 • (ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune–Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

閭: Hán Nôm readings: lữ, lừ, lư
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#### References

* Nom Foundation