lǎng
clear, bright
Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rˤaŋʔ | langX | lǎng | bright |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 14.9608% of movies
1269th most common character in movies
1276th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6717 |
Shuowen | “朗,明也。从月,良聲。” |
Sources
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