塁

See also: 壘

塁 U+5841, 塁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5841 ← 塀 [U+5840] CJK Unified Ideographs 塂 → [U+5842]

Translingual

Traditional	壘
Shinjitai	塁
Simplified	垒

Han character

塁 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田戈人土 (WIOG), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿳田⿱丷八土)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 234, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5316
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2544, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5841

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 塁 – see 壘 (“rampart; military wall; base; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 壘).

Japanese

Shinjitai	塁
Kyūjitai	壘

Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 塁

塁

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 壘)

Readings

• Go-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)
• Kun: とりで (toride, 塁)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
塁
るい Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
壘 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 壘 (MC lwijX).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) るい [rúꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɾɯ̟i]

Noun

塁(るい) • (rui) 

1. (baseball) base

Proper noun

塁(るい) • (Rui) 

1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
塁
とりで Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
壘 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 塁 – see the following entry.

【砦とりで】J [noun] fort Alternative spelling 寨

(This term, 塁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN