瑠

瑠 U+7460, 瑠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7460 ← 瑟 [U+745F] CJK Unified Ideographs 瑡 → [U+7461]

Translingual

Han character

瑠 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一土竹竹田 (MGHHW), four-corner 1716₂, composition ⿰𤣩留)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 738, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21143
• Dae Jaweon: page 1149, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1132, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7460

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
卯	*mruːʔ
昴	*mruːʔ
泖	*mruːʔ
茆	*mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅	*m̥ʰruːs
窌	*m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊	*m·rɯːw
貿	*mlus
鄮	*mlus
劉	*m·ru
留	*m·ru, *m·rus
蒥	*m·ru
鶹	*m·ru
騮	*m·ru
榴	*m·ru
瑠	*ru
瘤	*m·ru, *m·rus
遛	*m·ru
鎦	*m·ru
飀	*m·ru
鰡	*m·ru
嵧	*m·ru
餾	*m·ru, *m·rus
瀏	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳	*m·ruʔ
珋	*m·ruʔ
罶	*m·ruʔ
嬼	*m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜	*m·rus
霤	*m·rus
廇	*m·rus
塯	*m·rus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ru): semantic 𤣩 (“jade”) + phonetic 留 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 瑠 – see 琉. (This character, 瑠, is a variant form of 琉.)

Japanese

Kanji

瑠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. precious stone
2. gem
3. lapis lazuli

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Nanori: るり (ruri)

Compounds

• 瑠璃(るり) (ruri): lapis lazuli

Korean

Hanja

瑠 (eumhun 맑은 유리 류 (malgeun yuri ryu), South Korea 맑은 유리 유 (malgeun yuri yu))

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 瑠

Vietnamese

Han character

瑠: Hán Việt readings: lưu

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References

• Nom Foundation