漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
羅: gauze, thin silk
Also: Rome, arrange, spread out
JLPT N119 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
罒 carries the meaning · 維 is drawn in
19 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ラra · on'yomi · in compounds
- 網羅もうらencompassing; covering (exhaustively)
- 甲羅こうらshell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace
- 羅列られつenumeration; citation; listing
- 羅漢らかんarhat
- 修羅しゅらAsura; demigod; anti-god
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 新羅しらぎSilla (ancient Korean kingdom
Also read うすもの, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch from above! Imagine an eye turned on its side to peer down from the roof of a building.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 罗 · traditional, as in Japanese · luó
Japan keeps the traditional form 羅; mainland China simplifies it to 罗.
- Simplified
- 罗 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 羅 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin luó most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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