埒
埒 — ral
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 바자울 랄
- Romanization
- ral
- English
- enclosure, dike, embankment
- Mandarin
- liè
- Japanese on'yomi
- ラチ, レツ, ラツ, レチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- らち.があく かこ.い
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 土 (32, 7 residual)
- Unicode
- U+57D2
How 埒 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 埒 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 土, 寽.
Japanese words with 埒
- 埒らち bounds; limits; boundary fence (esp. of horse-riding ground)
- 不埒ふらち lawless; outrageous; insolent
- 埒外らちがい out of bounds; beyond the pale
- 埒内らちない within bounds; within the pale
- 不埒者ふらちもの miscreant; scoundrel; villain
- 不埒千万ふらちせんばん very insolent; extremely audacious; reprehensible
- 埒があくらちがあく to come to a settlement
- 埒もないらちもない incoherent; vague; silly
- 埒があかないらちがあかない making no progress; getting nowhere; remaining unsettled
Other hanja read “랄”
Other hanja with radical 土
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