# 埒

| 埒 | U+57D2, &#22482; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57D2 |
| ← 埑 [U+57D1] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 埓 → [U+57D3] |

## Translingual
### Han character

埒 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土月木戈 (GBDI), four-corner 4214$_9$, composition ⿰土寽)
* enclosure, dike, embankment

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5123
* Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 446, character 3
* Unihan data for U+57D2

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 酹 | *roːds, *ruːls |
| 脟 | *ronʔ, *rod |
| 捋 | *roːd |
| 蛶 | *roːd, *rod |
| 埒 | *rod |
| 鋝 | *rod, *srod |
| 浖 | *rod |
| 哷 | *rod |
| 寽 | *rud |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rod) : semantic 土 + phonetic 寽 (OC *rud).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): liè (lie$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lyut$^3$ / lyut$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: liè
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: liè
*** Wade–Giles: lieh$^4$
*** Yale: lyè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lieh
*** Palladius: ле (le)
*** Sinological IPA : /li̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lyut$^3$ / lyut$^6$
*** Yale: lyut / lyuht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lyt$^8$ / lyt$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lüd$^3$ / lüd$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /lyːt̚³/, /lyːt̚²/
* Middle Chinese: ljwet
Rime :
| Character | 埒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 薛 (82) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力輟切 |
| Baxter | ljwet |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /liuᴇt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lʷiɛt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ljuæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lwiat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /liuɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭuɛt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /li̯wɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lüè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lyut$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*rod/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 埒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8591 |
| Phonetic component | 寽 |
| Rime group | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 劣 |
| Old Chinese | /*rod/ |

### Definitions

埒
* (obsolete) toe wall; raised path between crop fields; margin
* (obsolete) water flow on the mountains
* (obsolete) ancient name of a place in Shanxi province

#### Compounds

* 壝埒 / 𭏸埒
* 富埒天子
* 富埒陶白
* 馬埒 / 马埒

### References

* “埒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* Go-on: れち (rechi)
* Kan-on: れつ (retsu)
* Kan’yō-on: らち (rachi)、らつ (ratsu)
* Kun: かこい (kakoi, 埒い)、かき (kaki)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 埒
* らち Hyōgai
* kan'yōon
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) らち [ráꜜchì] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [ɾa̠t͡ɕi]

### Noun

埒(らち) • (rachi)
* a fence built around a stable
* a fence built around something
** 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 523:Rachi. ラチ (埒) 柵・垣. 比喩. Rachiuo aquru. (埒を明くる) 物事をよく解明する。Rachino aita fito. (埒の明いた人)素直で、道理にはすぐに副する人. Rachiuo coyuru, l, yaburu. (埒を越ゆる、または、破る)規則や禁制条項を破る、または、道理に背く.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* a partition or limit

#### Derived terms

* 埒(らち)が明(あ)く (rachi ga aku)
* 埒(らち)を開(あ)ける (rachi o akeru)
* 埒(らち)がない (rachi ga nai)
* 埒(らち)もない (rachi mo nai)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
   * Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.

## Korean
### Hanja

埒 • (ral) (hangeul 랄, revised ral, McCune–Reischauer ral)
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