# 櫓

| 櫓 | U+6AD3, &#27347; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AD3 |
| ← 櫒 [U+6AD2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 櫔 → [U+6AD4] |
| 櫓 | U+F931, &#63793; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F931 |
| ← 擄 [U+F930] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 爐 → [U+F932] |

## Translingual
### Han character

櫓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木弓田日 (DNWA), four-corner 4796$_3$, composition ⿰木魯)
* scull, sweep, oar
* to row
* lookout turret on a city wall, movable wooden tower for archers

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15798
* Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1315, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6AD3
* Unihan data for U+F931

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 魯 | *raːʔ |
| 櫓 | *raːʔ |
| 穭 | *raʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raːʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 魯 (OC *raːʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǔ (lu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lou$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ló͘
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$lu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lǔ
*** Wade–Giles: lu$^3$
*** Yale: lǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luu
*** Palladius: лу (lu)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lou$^5$
*** Yale: lóuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lou$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lou$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /lou̯¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló͘
*** Tâi-lô: lóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lor
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ⁴¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$lu
*** MiniDict: lu$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$lu
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lu²³/
* Middle Chinese: luX
Rime :
| Character | 櫓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 郎古切 |
| Baxter | luX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /luo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /luo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /lo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /lu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /luo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lou$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*raːʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 櫓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ˁaʔ/ |
| English | shield (n.) |
| 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 | 櫓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8526 |
| Phonetic component | 魯 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 魯 |
| Old Chinese | /*raːʔ/ |

### Definitions

櫓
* scull
* large shield

#### Compounds

* 干櫓
* 搖櫓 / 摇橹 (yáolǔ)
* 樓櫓 / 楼橹
* 檣櫓 / 樯橹
* 櫓帆船 / 橹帆船
* 櫓棹
* 櫓槳 / 橹桨
* 烽櫓 / 烽橹
* 譙櫓 / 谯橹
* 轒櫓 / 𮝷橹

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: る (ru)
* Kan-on: ろ (ro)
* Kun: おおだて (ōdate)、やぐら (yagura, 櫓)

### Etymology

Compound of 矢 (ya, “arrow”) and 倉 (kura, “storehouse”). See also Japanese 矢倉 (yagura).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ja̠ɡɯ̟ɾa̠]

### Noun

櫓(やぐら) • (yagura)
* watchtower, turret

## Korean
### Hanja

櫓 (eumhun 방패 로 (bangpae ro), word-initial (South Korea) 방패 노 (bangpae no))
* hanja form of 로 (“(North Korea) oar”)
* hanja form of 노 (“(South Korea) oar”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

櫓: Hán Nôm readings: lỗ
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