làng
wave
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 浪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to waste | ||
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company | ||
romantic | ||
wave | ||
to surf |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤaŋ | lang | láng | (name of a river) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 49.3673% of movies
834th most common character in movies
1186th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6D6A |
Shuowen | “浪,滄浪水也。南入江。从水,良聲。” |
Sources
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