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廊

láng

corridor

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 郎 represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

郎 sound component

郎  Sound component

láng

  

gentleman

Evolution

廊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
廊 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
廊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
廊 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
廊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

廊  

láng

corridor, porch, veranda; corridor; veranda; porch

Most common words with 廊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

走廊

corridor

画廊

gallery

廊

corridor

发廊

hair salon

长廊

promenade

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤaŋ

lang

láng

side-gallery


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.3590% of movies

1783rd most common character in movies

2075th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5ECA

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“廊，東西序也。从广，郎聲。”


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