乳

• ခန်ဂျဳ: မုက်လိက် 84, ဗျဉ် 17
• အဘိဓာန်ဗျဉ်ခေန်ဂျဳအဝဲဇၞော်: ဗျဉ် 190
• ဒေ ဂျာဝေါန်: မုက်လိက် 171, ဗျဉ် 22
• အဘိဓာန်ဗျဉ်ဟာန်ကြုက် (ဆၜိုတ်ပလေဝ်ဒါန်ဗွဲကိုပ်ကၠာ): ကၞပ် 1, မုက်လိက် 55, ဗျဉ် 4
• စရၚ်ယူနဳဟာန်သွက် U+4E73

乳 (မစှ်ေကဆံၚ်သ္ဇိုၚ်ခန်ဂျဳ 5, 乙+7, 8 ခရက်စုက် , ဖပေၚ်စုတ် ခန်ဂျဳ 月木山 (BDU), ဒကဴ-ပန်သာ် 2241₀, မပံၚ်ဖျပ်စုတ် ⿰孚乚)

乳 U+4E73, 乳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E73 ← 乲 [U+4E72] လိက်ဗီုကောန်ရုပ်CJKဂမၠိုၚ် 乴 → [U+4E74]

နိဿဲ

• ခန်ဂျဳ: မုက်လိက် 84, ဗျဉ် 17
• အဘိဓာန်ဗျဉ်ခေန်ဂျဳအဝဲဇၞော်: ဗျဉ် 190
• ဒေ ဂျာဝေါန်: မုက်လိက် 171, ဗျဉ် 22
• အဘိဓာန်ဗျဉ်ဟာန်ကြုက် (ဆၜိုတ်ပလေဝ်ဒါန်ဗွဲကိုပ်ကၠာ): ကၞပ် 1, မုက်လိက် 55, ဗျဉ် 4
• စရၚ်ယူနဳဟာန်သွက် U+4E73

Chinese

ဓမ္မတာ ကဵု အခိုက်ကၞာ		乳
alternative forms		奶 Eastern Min 𬂌 Eastern Min

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 乳
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j25390 Small seal script s08669 Transcribed ancient scripts L34366 L14508 L14509 L14510 L14511
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (乳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
啂
乳

Pictogram (象形) : A kneeling woman holding and breastfeeding a child. The woman resembles the character 母.

Etymology

From ကြုက်-တိဗိတ်-အခိုက်ကၞာ *s-nəw.

Pronunciation

• မာန်ဒါရေဝ်

  (Pinyin): rǔ (ru³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˇ

• ကာန်ဒုန် (ဇုဲဖှေန်): jyu⁵
• ဟးကာ (Sixian, PFS): yî
• စေံ (ဝိက်ရှေန်နရဳ): ru²
• မေန်လ္ပာ်ဗၟံက် (ဗဳယူသဳ): nĕng / nèng / ṳ̄
• မေန်လ္ပာ်ဒိုဟ်သမၠုၚ်ကျာ

  (ဟောတ်ကဳယာန်၊ ဗ.အ.စ.): jí / jú / lú

  (တးကြူ၊ ဖါန်အိန်): ru²

• ဝူ (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy; ⁶lu

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• မာန်ဒါရေဝ်
  • (တိုၚ်ခဳကြုက်)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ju³
    • Yale: rǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruu
    • ဖာလေဝ်ဒဳယာန်: жу (žu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu²¹⁴/
• ကာန်ဒုန်
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵
    • Yale: yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³/
• ဟးကာ
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yî
    • Hakka Romanization System: i^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yî
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)i^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i²⁴/
• စေံ
  • (ထာၚ်ယျာမ်)⁺
    • ဝိက်ရှေန်နရဳ: ru²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ʐu⁵³/
• မေန်လ္ပာ်ဗၟံက်
  • (ဖှာယ်ဂျို)
    • ၜါန်-ဝါပ်-ကာယ်: nĕng / nèng / ṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡɛiŋ⁵⁵/, /nˡɛiŋ⁵³/, /y³³/

Note:

• nĕng/nèng - colloquial;
• ṳ̄ - literary.

• မေန်လ္ပာ်ဒိုဟ်သမၠုၚ်ကျာ
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jí
    • Tâi-lô: jí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jú
    • Tâi-lô: jú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: juo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lú
    • Tâi-lô: lú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /lu⁵³/
  • (တးကြူ)
    • ဖါန်အိန်: ru²
    • ဖါန်-အာဝ်-ဂျဳ-like: jú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu⁵²/
• ဝူ
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zy; ⁶lu
    • MiniDict: zy^去; lu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr; ³lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/, /lu²³/
Note: ⁶lu - younger speakers.

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• Middle Chinese: nyuX

Rime
Character	乳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	而主切
Baxter	nyuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵuə̆X/
Li Rong	/ȵioX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*noʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	乳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ nyuX ›
Old Chinese	/*noʔ/
English	milk; nipple
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

乳

1. (လိက်ပတ်) to breastfeed; to suckle
2. breast; nipples
3. milk; breast milk

   母乳  ―  mǔrǔ  ―  breast milk; mother's milk

   1. milk or cheese-like substance

      豆乳  ―  dòurǔ  ―  soya milk

4. to breed; to propagate
   • ထာမ်ပလိက်:zh-q
5. newborn; young and small

   乳豬 / 乳猪  ―  rǔzhū  ―  suckling pig

6. to multiply; to proliferate; to reproduce; to breed
7. (အရေဝ်ဗေဗာန်အေၚ်တာနေတ်) ဗီုဝေါဟာတၞဟ်မဆေၚ်ကဵု 辱 (“to insult, to humiliate”)