浬

Translingual

Han character

浬 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水田土 (EWG), four-corner 3611₄)

1. nautical mile

References

• KangXi: page 624, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17485
• Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1623, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6D6C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

浬 (Yale lei5)

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Japanese

Kanji

浬 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. nautical mile; knot

Readings

• On: り (ri)
• Kun: かいり (kairi), ノット (notto)

Etymology 1

From Sinitic 浬.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA: /ri/, [ɽi]

Noun

浬 (hiragana り, romaji ri)

1. a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

Etymology 2

From Sinitic 海里. The single-kanji spelling 浬 is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA: /ka.i.ri/, [käiɽi]

Noun

浬 (hiragana かいり, romaji kairi)

1. a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

Etymology 3

From English knot. The kanji spelling 浬 is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: /no.t.to/, [no̞tto̞]

Alternative forms

• 節, ノット

Noun

浬 (katakana ノット, romaji notto)

1. a knot: a nautical unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour

Usage notes

The katakana spelling ノット is more common in modern Japanese than either kanji spelling of 浬 or 節.

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Korean

Hanja

浬 (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

浬 (pinyin lǐ (li3), Wade-Giles li³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

浬 (lí, rí)