翏

翏 U+7FCF, 翏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FCF ← 翎 [U+7FCE] CJK Unified Ideographs 翐 → [U+7FD0]

Translingual

Han character

翏 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸一人竹竹 (SMOHH), four-corner 1720₂, composition ⿱羽㐱)

1. the sound of the wind
2. to soar

Derived characters

• 僇 嘐 𪤗 嫪 嵺 𢄪 憀 摎 漻 㺒 䢧 㬔 樛 熮 璆 膠 疁 磟 穋 繆(缪) 蟉 䚧 謬(谬) 豂 蹘 賿 轇 醪 鏐(镠) 飂 髎 䵏
• 勠 剹 鄝 戮 雡 顟 鷚 鹨 寥 蓼 廖 瘳 䰘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 956, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1401, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3345, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7FCF

Chinese

trad.		翏
simp. #		翏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翏
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
醪	*ruːw
嫪	*ruːw, *rɯːws
嘐	*ɡ·ruːw, *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw
賿	*rrɯːw, *rrɯːwʔ
顟	*rrɯːw
膠	*krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw
轇	*krɯːw
摎	*krɯːw, *rɯw
髎	*riw, *rɯːw
熮	*riws, *rɯːw, *rɯwʔ
廖	*rɯːw, *rɯːws, *rɯws
憀	*rɯːw, *rɯw
豂	*rɯːw
漻	*rɯːw
翏	*ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws
寥	*rɯːw, *rɯːwɢ
蓼	*rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ
鄝	*rɯːwʔ
鷚	*mɡlɯw, *rɯwɢs, *mɡrɯw, *ɡrɯw
繆	*mlɯw, *mɡrɯw, *mrɯws, *mlɯwɢ
勠	*rɯw, *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
疁	*rɯw
飂	*rɯw, *rɯws
鏐	*rɯw, *rɯw
僇	*rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
瘳	*r̥ʰɯw
璆	*ɡlɯw, *ɡrɯw
謬	*mrɯws
蟉	*ɡ·rɯw, *ɡrɯw, *ɡrɯwʔ
樛	*krɯw
磟	*ruːwɢ, *rɯwɢ
戮	*rɯwɢ
剹	*rɯwɢ
穋	*rɯwɢ

Unclear, various theories exist.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liù, lù (liu⁴, lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˋ, ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): liu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liâu / liù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liòu
    • Wade–Giles: liu⁴
    • Yale: lyòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liow
    • Palladius: лю (lju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (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: liu⁶
    • Yale: liuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: liu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: liu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâu / liù
    • Tâi-lô: liâu / liù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liaau, liux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liau²⁴/, /liu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liau²⁴/, /liu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liau¹³/, /liu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liau²⁴/, /liu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liau²³/, /liu²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lew, ljuwH

Rime
Character	翏	翏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	落蕭切	力救切
Baxter	lew	ljuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leu/	/lɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/leu/	/liuH/
Shao Rongfen	/leu/	/liəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛw/	/luwH/
Li Rong	/leu/	/liuH/
Wang Li	/lieu/	/lĭəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieu/	/li̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liáo	liù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	liu4	lau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]iw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·rɯːw/, /*ɡ·rɯws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liù
Middle Chinese	‹ ljuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]iw-s/
English	flying high (no pre-Han text)
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	翏	翏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8363	8385
Phonetic component	翏	翏
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	聊	溜
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·rɯːw/	/*ɡ·rɯws/

Definitions

翏

1. (obsolete) to fly high; to soar

Compounds

• 翏翏

Japanese

Kanji

翏

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. the sound of the wind
2. to soar

Readings

• On (unclassified): りゅう (ryū)、る (ru)、りょう (ryō)、りく (riku)

Korean

Hanja

翏 • (ryo) (hangeul 료, revised ryo, McCune–Reischauer ryo, Yale lyo)

1. to fly high
2. the sound of the wind