# 髏

| 髏 | U+9ACF, &#39631; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ACF |
| ← 髎 [U+9ACE] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 髐 → [U+9AD0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

髏 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月月中中女 (BBLLV), four-corner 7524$_4$, composition ⿰骨婁)
* skull
* skeleton

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1450, character 44
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45267
* Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4417, character 7
* Unihan data for U+9ACF

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 樓 | *ɡ·roː |
| 摟 | *roː, *ro |
| 耬 | *roː |
| 僂 | *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ |
| 婁 | *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro |
| 螻 | *roː |
| 髏 | *roː |
| 蔞 | *roː, *ro, *roʔ |
| 鞻 | *roː |
| 艛 | *ɡ·roː |
| 膢 | *roː, *ro |
| 廔 | *roː |
| 嘍 | *roː, *roːʔ |
| 瞜 | *roː, *ro |
| 簍 | *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 慺 | *roː, *ro, *roʔ |
| 鷜 | *roː, *ro |
| 褸 | *roː, *roʔ |
| 遱 | *roː |
| 謱 | *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 嶁 | *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 甊 | *roːʔ |
| 塿 | *roːʔ |
| 漊 | *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 鏤 | *roːs, *ro |
| 瘻 | *roːs, *ro |
| 擻 | *sloːʔ |
| 藪 | *sloːʔ |
| 籔 | *sloːʔ, *sroʔ |
| 氀 | *ro |
| 縷 | *roʔ |
| 屢 | *ros |
| 數 | *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ |
| 屨 | *klos |
| 窶 | *ɡloʔ |
| 貗 | *ɡloʔ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lóu (lou$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lau$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lóu
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lóu
*** Wade–Giles: lou$^2$
*** Yale: lóu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
*** Palladius: лоу (lou)
*** Sinological IPA : /loʊ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lau$^4$
*** Yale: làuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lau$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: leo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɐu̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: luw
Rime :
| Character | 髏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 落侯切 |
| Baxter | luw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ləu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ləu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ləu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ləw/ |
| Li Rong | /lu/ |
| Wang Li | /ləu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /lə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lóu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lau$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*roː/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 髏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8459 |
| Phonetic component | 婁 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 樓 |
| Old Chinese | /*roː/ |

### Definitions

髏
* Only used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”).

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 髅 |
| Kyūjitai | 髏 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髅)
* skull

#### Readings

* Go-on: る (ru)
* Kan-on: ろう (rō)
* Kan’yō-on: ろ (ro)

#### Compounds

* 髑髏(どくろ) (dokuro)

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髏 (MC luw). Recorded as Middle Korean 루 (lwu) (Yale: lwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

### Hanja

Wikisource 髏 (eumhun 해골 루 (haegol ru), word-initial (South Korea) 해골 누 (haegol nu))
* hanja form of 루/누 (“skull”)

#### Compounds

* 촉루 (髑髏, chongnu)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

髏: Hán Việt readings: lâu
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