頪

頪 U 982A, 頪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-982A ← 頩 [U 9829] CJK Unified Ideographs 頫 → [U 982B]

Translingual

Han character

頪 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁 6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火木一月金 (FDMBC), composition ⿰米頁)

1. (archaic) class, group, kind, category
2. bright white
3. illness, disease, sickness

Descendants

• 𤁾, 𥌨, 𪫇, 𬕿, 𮨔, 類, 𩔖, 𩔗, 𩔫, 類, 𥜛, 纇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1403, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43462
• Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4370, character 9
• Unihan data for U 982A

Chinese

trad.		頪
simp.		𱂧

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蘱	*ruːls, *ruds
纇	*ruːls
類	*ruːls, *ruds
頪	*roːds
禷	*ruds

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 米 頁. Perhaps, according to an interpretation in the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen, the first component is a contraction of 粉, which means that 頁 is the Kangxi radical.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lèi (lei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): loi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lèi
    • Wade–Giles: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ley
    • Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: loi⁶
    • Yale: loih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: loi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: lwajH

Rime
Character	頪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎外切
Baxter	lwajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑiH/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷɑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwajH/
Li Rong	/luɑiH/
Wang Li	/luɑiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luɑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頪
Reading #	1/1
No.	7771
Phonetic component	頪
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	酹
Old Chinese	/*roːds/

Definitions

頪

1. Fresh/vivid white appearance (according to Xu Shen, 鮮白皃; otherwise, the meaning is difficult to know)

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 3), p. 238