# 躼

| 躼 | U+8EBC, &#36540; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EBC |
| ← 躻 [U+8EBB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 躽 → [U+8EBD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

躼 (Kangxi radical 158, 身+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸一女 (HHSMV), composition ⿰身長)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1237, character 58
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 3811, character 8
* Unihan data for U+8EBC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 身 (“body”) + 長 (“long”)

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lào (lao$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˋ
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lò / liò
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lào
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lào
*** Wade–Giles: lao$^4$
*** Yale: làu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
*** Palladius: лао (lao)
*** Sinological IPA : /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Tong'an, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lò
*** Tâi-lô: lò
*** Phofsit Daibuun: loix
*** IPA (Tong'an): /lo¹¹²/
*** IPA (Lukang): /lo³¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Yilan): /lo²¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung, Tainan): /lɤ²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lo¹¹/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Singapore, Philippines)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liò
*** Tâi-lô: liò
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lioix
*** IPA (Lukang): /lio³¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /lio⁴¹/
*** IPA (Singapore): /lio²¹/

### Definitions

躼
* (Southern Min, of a person) tall

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 高 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 高 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 高 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Malaysia | 高 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 高 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 高 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 高 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 高 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 高, 長 † |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 高 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 高 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 高 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 高 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 高 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 高 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 高 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 高, 猛 † |
| Hakka | Meixian | 高 |
| Hakka | Changting | 高 |
| Hakka | Wuping | 高 |
| Hakka | Liancheng | 高 |
| Hakka | Ninghua | 高 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 高 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 高 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou (Changle) | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Pingtan | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Yongtai | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Gutian | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Fu'an | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Ningde | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Shouning | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Zhouning | 懸 |
| Eastern Min | Matsu | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 懸, 躼 † |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Teochew) | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Wenchang | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Qionghai | 懸 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hainanese) | 懸 |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 懸 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou | 懸 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 懸 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 高, 長 † |
| Wu | Suzhou | 高, 長 † |
| Wu | Hangzhou (Yuhang) | 長, 高 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 高, 長 † |
| Xiang | Changsha | 高, 上 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 高, 長 † |
| Note | † - of a person's height | † - of a person's height |

### Compounds

* 抽躼／抽𲄚
* 㾪躼／㾪𲄚
* 躼跤／𲄚跤
* 躼跤仔／𲄚跤仔
* 躼躼長／𲄚𲄚长
* 長躼埽／长𲄚埽
* 長躼躼／长𲄚𲄚

### References

* “Entry #13484”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
* 劉建仁 (2011 September 13) “軂（loʟ）──（身材）高長、高挑”, in 台灣話的語源與理據 (in Chinese), retrieved 2015-10-24