羅

See also: 罗

Contents

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 网 ‎(“net”) + 維 ‎(“bird”)

Han characterEdit

羅 (radical 122 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中女火土 (WLVFG), four-corner 6091₄, composition ⿱罒維)

Derived charactersEdit

• 儸 (㑩), 攞, 囉 (啰), 玀 (猡), 欏 (椤), 曪, 纙, 鑼 (锣), 饠 (𫗩), 蘿 (萝), 籮 (箩), 邏 (逻)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 950, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2928, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F85

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ChineseEdit

trad.		羅
simp.		罗

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luó (luo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lò
• Min Dong (BUC): lò̤
• Min Nan (POJ): lô
• Wu (Wiktionary): lu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: luó
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: luo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luo
    • IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lo⁴
    • Yale: lòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lò
    • Hakka Romanization System: loˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lo²
    • IPA: /lo¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lò̤
    • IPA ^(key): /l̃o⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô
    • Tâi-lô: lô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: looi
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɤ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: lu (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /lv̩ʷ²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 羅
Mandarin	Beijing	/luo³⁵/
	Harbin	/luo²⁴/
	Tianjin	/luo⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/luə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/luə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/luo⁴²/
	Xi'an	/luo²⁴/
	Xining	/lu²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/luə⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/luə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/luɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/nuo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/no³¹/
	Guiyang	/no²¹/
	Kunming	/lo³¹/
	Nanjing	/lo²⁴/
	Hefei	/lʊ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/lɤ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/lei¹³/
	Hohhot	/luɤ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/lu²³/
	Suzhou	/ləu¹³/
	Hangzhou	/lo²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/lɤu³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/lo⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/lo⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/lo¹³/
	Xiangtan	/no¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/lo⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/lo¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/lo¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/lɔ²¹/
	Nanning	/lɔ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/lɔ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/lo³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/lo⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/lɔ³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/lo⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/lo³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /lɑ/▼

Rime
Character	羅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	魯何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/la/
Li Rong	/lɑ/
Wang Li	/lɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luó

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*rˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːl/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luó
Middle Chinese	‹ la ›
Old Chinese	/*rˤaj/
English	a kind of net (on a handle?) (Shuōwén: "bird net")
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	羅
Reading #	1/1
No.	8676
Phonetic component	羅
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	羅
Old Chinese	/*raːl/
Notes	象張網系隹

DefinitionsEdit

羅

1. net for catching birds
2. gauze
3. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

• 紫羅蘭／紫罗兰 (zǐluólán)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

羅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk
2. (Abbreviation) Latin (language)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: ら (ra)
• Kan’on: ら (ra)
• Kun: あみ (ami), つらねる (tsuraneru), うすもの (usumono)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

雀羅 (じゃくら) ‎(jakura): sparrow net 天麩羅 (てんぷら) ‎(tenpura): tempura 羅袖 (らしゅう) ‎(rashū): lightweight-fabric sleeve 羅針盤 (らしんばん) ‎(rashinban): a compass 羅針儀 (らしんぎ) ‎(rashingi): a compass

Kanji in this term
羅
ら Grade: S
on'yomi

PronunciationEdit

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) ら​ [ráꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾ̠a̠]

NounEdit

羅 ‎(hiragana ら, romaji ra)

1. lightweight fabric

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

羅 • ‎(ra, na) (hangeul 라, 나, McCune-Reischauer ra, na, Yale la, na)

1. La, Old Korean dynasty, spreading something, silk fabric, netting for catching, sieving, spiral, net
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

• Hán Việt: la, là

1. to be

ReferencesEdit

• Nom Foundation