摟
简 搂 · 繁 摟Meanings · lau5
- (verb) to twist
Meanings · lau1
- to wear over one's shoulder or head or face
- to crawl on
- to lie flat down on something
- to extort by force
- stingy
Meanings · lau2
- to hug
- to embrace
- to hold in one's arms
Meanings · lau5
- to hug
- to embrace
- to hold in one's arms
Meanings · lau3
- to invite or encourage someone to do something together
Meanings · lau4
- to collect
- to drag
- to extort
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone difference from Unihan
- 摟 is read lau5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is lau1. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 摟 lau5 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 摟 lōu CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto draw towards oneself; to gather; to gather up (one's gown, sleeves etc); to grab (money); to extort
- 摟 lǒu CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto hug; to embrace; to hold in one's arms
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: lou3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 13 senses · 5 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lau1 · lau2 · lau3 · lau4 · lau5
Cantonese word readings for 摟. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- to hug; to embrace
- armspan
character · Etymology 1
- to gather up
- (colloquial) to pull up; to tuck up
- to extort; to rake in
- (regional) to calculate with an abacus
- (regional) to calculate with an abacus — (regional, figurative) to verify through calculation; to examine and calculate; to assess
- (dialectal) to pull; to draw
- (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) to drape; to cover
- (Cantonese, of insects) to crawl or hover over
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to pull in; to rope in; to gather
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese, transitive) to instigate; to invite; to tempt
- (Cantonese, transitive) to provoke
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