菉

菉 U+83C9, 菉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83C9 ← 菈 [U+83C8] CJK Unified Ideographs 菊 → [U+83CA]

菉 U+F93E, 菉 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F93E ← 綠 [U+F93D] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 錄 → [U+F93F]

Translingual

Han character

菉 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓一水 (TNME) or 廿女弓水 (TVNE), four-corner 4423₂, composition ⿱艹录)

1. the green bamboo
2. greenish bamboo

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1037, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31152
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3241, character 9
• Unihan data for U+83C9

• Unihan data for U+F93E

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
剝	*proːɡ
龣	*kroːɡ, *roːɡ
祿	*roːɡ
淥	*roːɡ, *roɡ
睩	*roːɡ
琭	*roːɡ
箓	*roːɡ
碌	*roːɡ, *roɡ
盝	*roːɡ
娽	*roːɡ, *roɡ
彔	*b·roːɡ
趢	*roːɡ, *roɡ
簶	*roːɡ
綠	*roɡ
逯	*roɡ
錄	*roɡ
醁	*roɡ
騄	*roɡ
菉	*roɡ
籙	*roɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roɡ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 菉 – see 綠 (“green; to become green; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 綠).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 菉 – see 彔 (“to carve wood; filter”). (This character is a variant form of 彔).

Etymology 3

trad.		菉
simp. #		菉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lù (lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: luk⁶
    • Yale: luhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: ljowk

Rime
Character	菉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	鍾 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力玉切
Baxter	ljowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/liok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/liok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luawk̚/
Li Rong	/liok̚/
Wang Li	/lĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	luk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	菉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lù
Middle Chinese	‹ ljowk ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ok/
English	(name of a plant)
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	菉
Reading #	1/1
No.	8560
Phonetic component	录
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	録
Old Chinese	/*roɡ/

Definitions

菉

1. small carpetgrass (Arthraxon hispidus)

   Synonym: 藎／荩 (jìn)

2. Used in place names

   苔菉  ―  Táilù  ―  Tailu (a town of Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)

Compounds

• 梅菉 (Méilù)
• 苔菉 (Táilù, “Tailu”)
• 菉豆 (lǜdòu)
• 菉豆眼

 

Japanese

Kanji

菉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ろく (roku)
• Kan-on: りょく (ryoku)
• Kun: かりやす (kariyasu)

Korean

Hanja

菉 • (rok>nok) (hangeul 록>녹, revised rok>nok, McCune–Reischauer rok>nok, Yale lok>nok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菉: Hán Nôm readings: lục

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