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龠 (Kangxi radical 214, 龠+0, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人一口月 (OMRB), four-corner 80227, composition ⿳亼𠱠𠕁)

  1. Kangxi radical #214, ⿕.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №43
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1538, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48882
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2080, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4807, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9FA0
simp. and trad.
 龠
alternative forms 𠎤
Old Chinese
讑 *lowɢs
籲 *los
爚 *hljowɢ, *lowɢ
禴 *lowɢ
蘥 *lowɢ
鑰 *lowɢ
瀹 *lowɢ
龠 *lowɢ
籥 *lowɢ
鸙 *lowɢ

Pictogram (象形) – a woodwind instrument. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added to show a mouth playing the instrument.

Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 品 + 侖.

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 龠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lewk/
English flute; key; tube

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 龠
Reading # 1/1
No. 16350
Phonetic
component 		龠
Rime
group 		藥
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		藥
Old
Chinese 		/*lowɢ/

龠

  1. yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)
  2. (historical) yue (an ancient Chinese unit of volume notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds)

龠

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. flute

龠 • (yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

  1. flute

龠: Hán Nôm readings: dược, thược

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