Character: 羅
Modern (Beijing) reading: luó
Preclassic Old Chinese: rāj
Classic Old Chinese: rāj
Western Han Chinese: rāj
Eastern Han Chinese: rǟ
Early Postclassic Chinese: lā
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lā
Late Postclassic Chinese: lā
Middle Chinese: lâ
English meaning : bird-net
Russian meaning[s]: 1) силки; сеть; ловить в сеть; поймать; 2) сетка, газ, тюль; 3) расставлять в ряды, расположить, разместить; 4) сокр. Румыния
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is la; Viet. là is a colloquial loan with the meaning 'fine silk' (one of the meanings of the word in later periods in Chinese is 'silk woven like a net, thinly woven silk'). An older loan from the same source is Viet. lu'ó'i 'net'. For *r cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou lo2, Fuzhou, Jianou lɔ2.
Radical: 122
Four-angle index: 901
Karlgren code: 0006 a
Vietnamese reading: là
