liáng
bridge
A wooden 木 bridge built 刅 over a river 氵
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 梁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
roof beam | ||
bridge (lit. and fig.) | ||
beam | ||
bridge of the nose | ||
backbone |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*raŋ | ljang | liáng | beam; bridge |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 4.5651% of movies
2542nd most common character in movies
1416th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6881 |
Shuowen | “梁，水橋也。从木，从水，刅聲。渿，古文。” |
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