# 婁

| 婁 | U+5A41, &#23105; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A41 |
| ← 婀 [U+5A40] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 婂 → [U+5A42] |

## Translingual
### Han character

婁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中中女 (LLV) or 中田中女 (LWLV), four-corner 5040$_4$, composition ⿳毋中女)

#### Derived characters

* 僂 (偻) 塿 (𪣻) 㜢 (𡞱) 摟 (搂) 嘍 (喽) 嶁 (嵝) 㡞 漊 (溇) 慺 (㥪) 樓 (楼) 㺏 (𤠋) 膢 (𦝼) 熡 (𤋏) 𤛠 㻲 䄛 瞜 (䁖) 䅹 褸 (褛) 耬 (耧) 螻 (蝼) 艛 縷 (缕) 軁 貗 (𫎌) 謱 (𫍴) 䝏 鏤 (镂) 鞻 髏 (髅) 䮫 䱾
* 䣚 㪹 甊 氀 數 (数) 䫫 鷜 㟺 蔞 (蒌) 寠 (𪧘) 窶 (窭) 簍 (篓) 𩯁 廔 屢 (屡) 瘻 (瘘) 屨 (屦) 遱 (𫐷)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 48
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6383
* Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 33
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1058, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5A41

## 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 |
Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro): semantic 爪 (“hands”) + phonetic 角 (OC *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ) + semantic 女 (“woman”). Meaning uncertain.
Later ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 母 (“mother”) + 中 + 女 (“daughter”).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lóu (lou$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lau$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): lèu
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liô / lô͘
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$leu
* 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/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: lèu
*** Sinological IPA : /l̃ɛu⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liô
*** Tâi-lô: liô
*** Phofsit Daibuun: liooi
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lio²⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô͘
*** Tâi-lô: lôo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: loo
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /lɔ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ²³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ¹³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$leu
*** MiniDict: leu$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$leu
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lɤ²³/
* Middle Chinese: luw
Rime :
| Character | 婁 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| 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/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /lə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lóu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lau$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]o/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·roː/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 婁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lóu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lju › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]o/ |
| English | drag, trail (v.) |
| 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 | 婁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| No. | 8457 |
| Phonetic component | 婁 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 樓 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡ·roː/ |

#### Definitions

婁
* (Chinese astronomy) the constellation Lóu, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions
* (dialectal, of a body) weak; feeble; frail
* (dialectal, of melons) overripe and unfit to eat
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 卷婁 / 卷娄
* 婁妃 / 娄妃
* 婁婁 / 娄娄
* 婁子 / 娄子 (lóuzi)
* 婁山 / 娄山
* 婁東派 / 娄东派
* 婁江 / 娄江
* 婁羅 / 娄罗 (lóuluó)
* 孛婁 / 孛娄
* 捅婁子 / 捅娄子 (tǒng lóuzi)
* 潑包婁 / 泼包娄
* 瞴婁 / 𱲦娄
* 邾婁 / 邾娄
* 離婁 / 离娄
* 離婁之明 / 离娄之明
* 黑婁婁 / 黑娄娄

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǘ (lü$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǘ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyú
*** Wade–Giles: lü$^2$
*** Yale: lyú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liu
*** Palladius: люй (ljuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leoi$^4$
*** Yale: lèuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loey$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lêu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵy̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: lju
Rime :
| Character | 婁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力朱切 |
| Baxter | lju |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /luə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /lio/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /li̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lǘ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | leoi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]o/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·ro/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 婁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lóu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lju › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]o/ |
| English | drag, trail (v.) |
| 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 | 婁 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 8493 |
| Phonetic component | 婁 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 慺 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡ·ro/ |

#### Definitions

婁
* (obsolete) to drag; to trail; to pull

#### Compounds

* 曳婁 / 曳娄

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǚ (lü$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǚ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔ
*** Wade–Giles: lü$^3$
*** Yale: lyǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leu
*** Palladius: люй (ljuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly²¹⁴/

#### Definitions

婁
* (obsolete) to tether oxen

### Etymology 4

* For pronunciation and definitions of 婁 – see 屢 (“repeatedly; frequently”). (This character is a variant form of 屢).

### References

* “婁”, 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)
* frequently
* tie

#### Readings

* Go-on: る (ru)
* Kan-on: ろう (rō)
* Kun: つなぐ (tsunagu, 婁ぐ)、ひく (hiku, 婁く)

#### Compounds

* 牟婁(むろ) (Muro)

## Korean
### Hanja

婁 (eum 루 (ru))
* a constellation
* to wear

## Vietnamese
### Han character

婁: Hán Nôm readings: lâu, sau, lu, lủ, lũ
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