亮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

liàng

bright

Phonosemantic compound. 人 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound. Depicts a person (人) in a high place (京).

Components

人 Meaning Iconic component

rén

person

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

京 Sound Iconic component

jīng

capital city

亮 and 京 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.亮 /*[r]aŋ-s/
京 /*[k]raŋ/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 京 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

亮

liàng

bright, brilliant, radiant, light; bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal

Most common words with 亮

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	漂亮	pretty
	亮	bright
	月亮	the moon
	亮相	to strike a pose (Chinese opera)
	闪亮	brilliant

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

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Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[r]aŋ-s	ljangH	liàng	brightness

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 70.6391% of movies

482nd most common character in movies

840th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+4EAE

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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