髏

See also: 髅
髏 U+9ACF, 髏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ACF
← 髎
[U+9ACE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 髐 →
[U+9AD0]

Translingual

Han character

髏 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月月中中女 (BBLLV), four-corner 75244, composition ⿰骨婁)

  1. skull
  2. skeleton

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1450, character 44
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4417, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9ACF

Chinese
trad. 髏
simp. 髅

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 髏
Reading # 1/1
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/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 lau4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 髏
Reading # 1/1
No. 8459
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 樓
Old
Chinese		 /*roː/

Definitions

髏

  1. Only used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”).

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

 髅

Kyūjitai

 髏

Kanji
髏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髅)

  1. skull

Readings
  • Go-on: る (ru)
  • Kan-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kan’yō-on: ろ (ro)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髏 (MC luw). Recorded as Middle Korean 루 (lwu) (Yale: lwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 髏 (eumhun 해골 루 (haegol ru), South Korea 해골 누 (haegol nu))

  1. Hanja form? of 루/누 (“skull”).

Compounds

References
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

髏: Hán Việt readings: lâu

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