呂

呂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口 (RHR), four-corner 6060₀, composition ⿳口丿口)

• 侶, 𠴊, 𡋿, 㛎, 𢙲, 𤞪, 𨹬, 𨓐, 梠, 𣨕, 𥆻, 𥓅, 𥺓, 絽, 𠒦, 躳, 𡳎, 鋁, 𤀗, 𥖓
• 𠭤, 𥖕, 𤳧, 𡄀, 宮, 𡱶, 莒, 営, 筥, 營, 麿, 閭

• ろ
• ロ

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 181, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3386
• Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 577, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5442

• Unihan data for U+F980

Ji Xusheng (2014): Pictogram (象形): two blocks of metal. Original form of 鋁 (“ingot”). Later incorporated into 金 (“metal”) as a semantic component.

Shuowen interprets it as a pictogram of two vertebrae. However, the two blocks were originally disconnected, and the connecting line was only added in the seal script.

Later phonetically borrowed for to represent 膂 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “spine”) and 呂 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “music notes”). The character was later borrowed phonetically to mean "I; give" and modified and stylized into 予.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ra-t (“bone”) (STEDT).

呂

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, anatomy) spine
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, music) even-numbered notes in shí'èrlǜ
3. Lü, a state in China that existed in the early years of the Spring and Autumn Period
4. a surname

   呂布／吕布  ―  Lǚ Bù  ―  Lü Bu (Chinese military general and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty)

• → English: Lu, Lü, Lui, Lv, Lyu, Loo, Luy, Lou, Lew

(Jōyō kanji)

1. spine
2. backbone

• Go-on: ろ (ro, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: りょ (ryo)
• Kun: せぼね (sebone, 呂)
• Nanori: おと (oto)、とも (tomo)、なが (naga)

呂(りょ) • (Ryo) 

1. an orthographic borrowing of the Chinese surname 呂 / 吕 (lǚ), Lu

呂 (eum 려 (ryeo))

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呂: Hán Nôm readings: lã, lả, lỡ, lử, lữa, rả, rứa, trả, trở, lớ, lở, lữ

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