# 鹵

| 鹵 | U+9E75, &#40565; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E75 |
| ← 鹴 [U+9E74] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鹶 → [U+9E76] |
| ⿄ | U+2FC4, &#12228; KANGXI RADICAL SALT |
| ← ⿃ [U+2FC3] | Kangxi Radicals | ⿅ → [U+2FC5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鹵 (Kangxi radical 197, 鹵+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜田戈戈 (YWII), four-corner 2160$_0$, composition ⿴占𠂭 or ⿱卜𱕻)

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/鹵
* 塷, 𢟧, 𢲸, 滷, 樐, 磠, 𮔶, 𧫓, 𮠾, 鏀, 𢧽, 𣤓, 𭫪, 蓾, 𥱾, 㔪, 㲶, 䀋, 𣰹

#### Related characters

* 卤

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1507, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47528
* Dae Jaweon: page 2035, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4609, character 1
* Unihan data for U+9E75

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鹵 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 滷 | *raːʔ, *r̥ʰjaɡ, *l'eːɡ |
| 鹵 | *raːʔ |
| 樐 | *raːʔ |
| 蓾 | *raːʔ |
| 鏀 | *raːʔ |
Pictogram (象形) – a bag of salt. Compare 西, 東, 束, 熏, and 柬. Originally unrelated to 卣 and its variant 𠧪.

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la (“salt”); compare Proto-Tani *lo (“salt”) (Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǔ (lu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lou$^5$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lû
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): ló͘ / lō͘
    (Teochew, Peng'im): lou$^6$
* 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/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lû
*** Hakka Romanization System: lu$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: lu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /lu²⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló͘
*** Tâi-lô: lóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lor
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /lɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
*** Tâi-lô: lōo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lo
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: lou$^6$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lŏu
*** Sinological IPA : /lou³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: luX
Rime :
| Character | 鹵 |
| 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 | 鹵 | 鹵 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lǔ | lǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lu$^X$ › | ‹ lu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ˁaʔ/ | /*[r]ˁaʔ/ |
| English | salty (land) | rustic, coarse |
| 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 | 鹵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8519 |
| Phonetic component | 鹵 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 魯 |
| Old Chinese | /*raːʔ/ |

#### Definitions

鹵
* saline soil
* natural salt
* (～素) (chemistry) halogen
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 三鹵甲烷 / 三卤甲烷
* 光鹵石 / 光卤石
* 斥鹵 / 斥卤 (chìlǔ)
* 流血漂鹵 / 流血漂卤
* 潟鹵 / 潟卤 (xìlǔ)
* 澤鹵 / 泽卤
* 磧鹵 / 碛卤
* 粗鹵 / 粗卤 (cūlǔ)
* 舄鹵 / 舄卤
* 莽鹵 / 莽卤
* 頑鹵 / 顽卤
* 鹵人 / 卤人
* 鹵化 / 卤化 (lǔhuà)
* 鹵化物 / 卤化物 (lǔhuàwù)
* 鹵化銀 / 卤化银 (lǔhuàyín)
* 鹵地 / 卤地
* 鹵族 / 卤族 (lǔzú)
* 鹵水 / 卤水 (lǔshuǐ)
* 鹵簿 / 卤簿 (lǔbù)
* 鹵素 / 卤素 (lǔsù)
* 鹵素燈 / 卤素灯
* 鹵莽 / 卤莽 (lǔmǎng)
* 鹵莽滅裂 / 卤莽灭裂 (lǔmǎngmièliè)
* 鹵蕨 / 卤蕨 (lǔjué)
* 鹵鈍 / 卤钝

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 鹵 – see 滷 (“thick sauce; to stew in soy sauce and spices; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 滷).

### References

* “鹵”, 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)
* salt

#### Readings

* Go-on: る (ru)
* Kan-on: ろ (ro)
* Kun: しお (shio, 鹵)、しおち (shiochi, 鹵)、たて (tate, 鹵)

#### Compounds

* 粗鹵(そろ) (soro), 疎鹵(そろ) (soro), 麁鹵(そろ) (soro)
* 鹵獲(ろかく) (rokaku)
* 鹵石(ろせき) (roseki)
* 鹵簿(ろぼ) (robo, “imperial procession”)
* 鹵莽(ろもう) (romō)

## Korean
### Hanja

鹵 (eumhun 소금 로 (sogeum ro), word-initial (South Korea) 소금 노 (sogeum no))
* hanja form of 노 (“salt”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

鹵: Hán Nôm readings: lỗ
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