Character: 捋
Modern (Beijing) reading: lè
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhōt
Classic Old Chinese: rhwāt
Western Han Chinese: rhwāt
Eastern Han Chinese: rhwāt
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhwāt
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhwāt
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhwāt
Middle Chinese: lwât
English meaning : to gather, pluck, pick
Russian meaning[s]: 1) срывать, обрывать; 2) гладить, приглаживать; 3) закатывать; засучивать; 4) скоблить, тереть
Shuowen gloss: 取易也.從手.#聲. [599]
Comments: For *rh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen luaʔ7, Chaozhou luek7, Fuzhou luok7. Modern Pek. has several readings : besides lǚ also lè and luō; lǚ is quite irregular (reflecting an unattested variant MC *lwit?); lè and luō are probably dialectal variants.
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 3217
Karlgren code: 0299 e
Shijing occurrences: 8.2_
