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螺 U+87BA, 螺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BA
← 螹
[U+87B9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 螻 →
[U+87BB]
螺 U+F911, 螺
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F911
← 蘿
[U+F910] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 裸 →
[U+F912]

Translingual

Han character

螺 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈田女火 (LIWVF), four-corner 56193, composition ⿰虫⿱田糸)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33512
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2885, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+87BA

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 螺
alternative forms 蠃
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Glyph origin

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Old Chinese
摞 *roːl, *roːls
騾 *roːl
螺 *roːl
蔂 *roːl, *rul
虆 *roːl, *rul
瘰 *roːlʔ
礌 *ruːl, *ruːls
雷 *ruːl
擂 *ruːl, *ruːls
攂 *ruːl, *ruːls
礧 *ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
儡 *ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
瓃 *ruːl, *rul, *ruls
櫑 *ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鑘 *ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鐳 *ruːl
畾 *ruːl
轠 *ruːl, *rulʔ
罍 *ruːl
蕾 *ruːlʔ
癗 *ruːlʔ
磥 *ruːlʔ
累 *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols
儽 *ruːls, *rul
樏 *rolʔ, *rul
鸓 *rul, *rulʔ
嫘 *rul
纍 *rul, *ruls
欙 *rul
纝 *rul
壘 *rulʔ
櫐 *rulʔ
蘽 *rulʔ
藟 *rulʔ
讄 *rulʔ
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Characters in the same phonetic series (畾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *roːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 累 (OC *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 蝸 (OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl, “terrestrial snail”).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 螺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落戈切
Baxter lwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /luɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /luɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /luɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwa/
Li
Rong		 /luɑ/
Wang
Li		 /luɑ/
Bernhard
Karlgren		 /luɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 luó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 lo4
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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 螺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 luó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwa ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.rˁoj/
English spiral, snail

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 螺
Reading # 1/1
No. 7701
Phonetic
component		 畾
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 𩼊
Old
Chinese		 /*roːl/
Notes 見論衡說文作蠃
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Note:
  • loe2 - vernacular;
  • lue2 - literary (as in 螺紋);
  • lui2 - used in toponym 螺洲.

Definitions

螺

  1. aquatic snail (as opposed to a terrestrial snail, 蝸 / 蜗 (wō))
  2. whorl; swirl; spiral
  3. fingerprint whorls
  4. (organic chemistry) spiro-
    螺內酯／螺内酯  ―  luónèizhǐ  ―  spironolactone
  5. (transgender slang) Short for 螺內酯／螺内酯 (luónèizhǐ, “spironolactone”); spiro
  6. (historical) wine cup made from a snail shell
  7. (historical) ink; pigment (green-black in color, produced from the snail, and used by women for drawing eyebrows)
  8. Short for 螺髻 (“hair done up in a coil shape”).

See also

  • (spiro): 補／补 (bǔ, “E”), 色 (sè, “cypro”)

Compounds

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