Hanja Analyzer
僂

僂 — ru

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
구부릴 루
Romanization
ru
English
humpback; surname
Mandarin
lóu
Japanese on'yomi
ル, ロウ, リュウ
Japanese kun'yomi
かが.む
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
13
Radical
人 (9, 11 residual)
Phonetic component
婁(루)
Unicode
U+50C2

Parts that make up 僂

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 婁 끌 루sound 본래 뜻이 분명하지 않다‘루’ 계열의 소리

How 僂 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 僂 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 婁.

Japanese words with 僂

  • 佝僂くる rickets; person with rickets; hunchback
  • 傴僂せむし hunchback; humpback; crookback

Characters sharing the phonetic 婁

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “루” in Korean.

Other hanja read “루”

Other hanja with radical 人

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