# 蔞

| 蔞 | U+851E, &#34078; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-851E |
| ← 蔝 [U+851D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蔟 → [U+851F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蔞 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿中中女 (TLLV), four-corner 4440$_4$, composition ⿱艹婁)
* Artemisia stelleriana

#### Derived characters

* 𣞾

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1054, character 35
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31813
* Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3278, character 4
* Unihan data for U+851E

## 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$^5$ / 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$^5$ / lau$^4$
*** Yale: láuh / làuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lau$^5$ / lau$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: leo$^5$ / leo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɐu̯¹³/, /lɐu̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: lju, luw, ljuX
Rime :
| Character | 蔞 | 蔞 | 蔞 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 侯 (137) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | I | III |
| Fanqie | 力朱切 | 落侯切 | 力主切 |
| Baxter | lju | luw | ljuX |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɨo/ | /ləu/ | /lɨo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lio/ | /ləu/ | /lio$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lio/ | /ləu/ | /lio$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /luə̆/ | /ləw/ | /luə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /lio/ | /lu/ | /lio$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭu/ | /ləu/ | /lĭu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /li̯u/ | /lə̯u/ | /li̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lǘ | lóu | lǚ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | leoi$^4$ | lau$^4$ | leoi$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*roː/, /*ro/, /*roʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蔞 | 蔞 | 蔞 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 8460 | 8486 | 8498 |
| Phonetic component | 婁 | 婁 | 婁 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 侯 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 樓 | 慺 | 縷 |
| Old Chinese | /*roː/ | /*ro/ | /*roʔ/ |

### Definitions

蔞
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#### Compounds

* 䒷蔞 / 䒷蒌
* 蔞葉 / 蒌叶 (lóuyè)
* 蔞蒿 / 蒌蒿
* 蔏蔞 / 蔏蒌
* 蓽露藍蔞 / 荜露蓝蒌 (bìlùlánlǚ)
* 蔞鵝 / 蒌鹅
* 藍蔞 / 蓝蒌 (lánlǚ)

### References

* “蔞”, 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

| Shinjitai (extended) | 蒌 |
| Kyūjitai | 蔞 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蒌)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: る (ru)
* Kan-on: ろう (rō)
* Kun: よもぎ (yomogi)

#### Compounds

* 蘩蔞(はこべ) (hakobe): chickweed

## Korean
### Hanja

蔞 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

蔞: Hán Việt readings: lâu, liễu
蔞: Nôm readings: giàu, rau, trầu
* chữ Hán form of lâu (“Artemisia stelleriana”).
* Nôm form of rau (“leafy greens, leaf vegetable”).

### References

* 1 2 3 Hồ (1976).
* 1 2 Trần (1999).
* ↑ Bonet (1899).
* ↑ Nguyễn et al. (2009).
* ↑ Génibrel (1898).