鎏

鎏 · liú

pure gold

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
liú
Cantonese
lau4
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

pure gold

Dictionary definitions & readings

鎏 liú · variant of 鎦 liú

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
64245.020:liú Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0727.010:liú Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
229.010:liú Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
liú粵lau4 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
リュウ ル Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
力求 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
EUC Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
3010.9 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1316.190 Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+938F
Radical
金 · 167
Strokes
18
Residual strokes
10
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6362

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

18 strokes
鎏
Strokes
18
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

18 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
ljuw · 力求 · 流開三平尤來 · #988

PHONO-ML, source line 7783; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1389.407
kHanYu
64245.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
64245.020
kIRGKangXi
1316.190
kKangXi
1316.190
kMeyerWempe
1086k
kMorohashi
40696
kSMSZD2003Index
733.19
kCangjie
EUC
kFourCornerCode
3010.9
kMojiJoho
MJ027096
kPhonetic
779A
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kIICore
BGTHM
kIRG_GSource
G0-764C
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EEDC
kIRG_JSource
J14-7B3A
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-8118
kIRG_KSource
K2-6975
kIRG_TSource
T2-602A
kRSUnicode
167.10
kTotalStrokes
18
kBigFive
EEDC
kCCCII
234579
kCNS1986
2-602A
kCNS1992
2-602A
kEACC
234579
kGB0
8644
kGB1
8644
kJIS0213
2,91,26
kJis1
6911
kMainlandTelegraph
9497
kTGH
2013:6362
kTaiwanTelegraph
9393
kXerox
314:244
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+18859+167.8.10
kCantonese
lau4
kDefinition
pure gold
kFanqie
力求
kHanyuPinyin
64245.020:liú
kJapanese
リュウ ル
kJapaneseKun
UTSUKUSHIIGANE
kJapaneseOn
RYUU RU
kKorean
LYU
kMandarin
liú
kSMSZD2003Readings
liú粵lau4
kTGHZ2013
229.010:liú
kXHC1983
0727.010:liú
kSemanticVariant
U+93D0<kMeyerWempe

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
2dictionary records using 鎏0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
流 above 金 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱流金$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱流金$(GHTJKP)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.