樓

See also: 楼
樓 U+6A13, 樓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A13
← 樒
[U+6A12] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 樔 →
[U+6A14]

Translingual
Japanese 楼
Simplified 楼
Traditional 樓

Han character

樓 (radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木中田女 (DLWV), four-corner 45944, composition ⿰木婁)

References
  • KangXi: page 549, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15430
  • Dae Jaweon: page 937, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1279, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6A13

Chinese
trad. 樓
simp. 楼
variant forms 𣏥 nonstandard

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·roː) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 婁 (OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • liô/lô͘ - literary;
  • lâu - vernacular.
Rime
Character 樓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ləu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ləu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləw/
Li
Rong		 /lu/
Wang
Li		 /ləu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lóu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 樓
Reading # 1/1
No. 8453
Phonetic
component		 婁
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 樓
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·roː/

Definitions

樓

  1. building (of two or more stories)
  2. floor, level (Classifier: 層／层)
    那個房子有三層樓。 [MSC, trad.]
    那个房子有三层楼。 [MSC, simp.]
    Nàge fángzi yǒu sān céng lóu. [Pinyin]
    That house has three floors.
  3. (Internet slang) comment, post
    9樓 / 9楼  ―  9 lóu  ―  comment #9
    樓主 / 楼主  ―  lóuzhǔ  ―  OP
    蓋樓 / 盖楼  ―  gàilóu  ―  to reply to a thread
    借樓問一下，[……[[#Chinese|]]] / 借楼问一下，[……[[#Chinese|]]]  ―  jièlóu wèn yīxià, [...... ]  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)
  4. A surname​. Lou

Synonyms
  1. 層／层 (céng)
  2. 樓層／楼层 (lóucéng)

Compounds
Derived terms from 樓

Descendants

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai

 楼

Kyūjitai

 樓

Kanji
樓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 楼)

  1. tower
  2. turret

Readings
  • Go-on: る (ru)
  • Kan-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kun: たかどの (takadono, 樓); やぐら (yagura, 樓)

Korean

Hanja

樓 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樓 (lầu, lâu)

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