羅

See also: 罗
羅 U+7F85, 羅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F85
← 羄
[U+7F84] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羆 →
[U+7F86]
羅 U+F90F, 羅
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F90F
← 癩
[U+F90E] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 蘿 →
[U+F910]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 羅
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (羅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羅 *raːl
蘿 *raːl
籮 *raːl
儸 *raːl
饠 *raːl
欏 *raːl, *raːlʔ
囉 *raːl
鑼 *raːl
邏 *raːl, *raːls

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 网 (“net”) + 維 (“bird (tied with string)”) — net for catching birds.

Etymology 1
trad. 羅
simp. 罗*
alternative forms 𦋝
𦌴

Perhaps related to Tibetan དྲ (dra, “net”), རྒྱ (rgya, “net; trap”), Tangut 𗙲 (*rer², “net”) (Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2014; Jacques, 2014).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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 (Hokkien) /lo³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /lo⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /lɔ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /lo⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lo³¹/
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
Baxter la
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 lo4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 luó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ la ›
Old
Chinese		 /*rˁaj/
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

Definitions

羅

  1. net for catching birds
    天羅地網／天罗地网  ―  tiānluódìwǎng  ―  escape-proof net
  2. sieve; sifter
  3. gauze
  4. to catch (birds) using a net
    門可羅雀／门可罗雀  ―  ménkěluóquè  ―  to have few visitors (literally, “can use a net to catch sparrows at the gate”)
  5. to gather together; to collect
    搜羅／搜罗  ―  sōuluó  ―  to scout out
  6. to display; to spread out
    羅列／罗列  ―  luóliè  ―  to display; to enumerate
    星羅棋布／星罗棋布  ―  xīngluóqíbù  ―  to be spread all over the place
  7. to sift
  8. a surname
    羅貫中／罗贯中  ―  Luó Guànzhōng  ―  Luo Guanzhong (author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
    羅大佑／罗大佑  ―  Luó Dàyòu  ―  Lo Ta-yu (Taiwanese singer and songwriter)
  9. Used in transcription.
Usage notes

In transcriptions of Buddhist terms, 羅 (MC la) is often used to transcribe Sanskrit ल (la) and Sanskrit र (ra).

Compounds

Etymology 2
trad. 羅
simp. 罗*
alternative forms 籮／箩

From English gross.

Pronunciation

Definitions

羅

  1. gross (144)

Japanese

Kanji
羅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
羅
ら
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

羅(ら) • (ra) 

  1. lightweight fabric

Affix

羅(ら) • (ra) 

  1. lightweight fabric
  2. Short for 羅甸 (“the Latin language”).
  3. (US) Short for 羅府 (“Los Angeles (a city in California, United States)”).

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 羅 (MC la). Recorded as Middle Korean 라 (la) (Yale: la) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 羅 (eumhun 그물 라 (geumul ra), South Korea 그물 나 (geumul na))

  1. Hanja form? of 라/나 (“net; fabric”).

Compounds
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.

Old Korean

Suffix

羅 (*-la)

  1. a plain imperative verb-final suffix

Descendants
  • Middle Korean: 으〮라〮 (-úlá)/ᄋᆞ〮라〮 (-ólá)

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Han character

羅: Hán Việt readings: la[1][2][3][4][5]
羅: Nôm readings: la[1][2], là[1][2], lơ[1]

Verb

羅 • (là)

  1. Nôm form of là (“to be”).

References
  1. Nguyễn (2014).
  2. Trần (2004).
  3. Trần (1999).
  4. Nguyễn (1974).
  5. Thiều Chửu (1942).
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