làng

wave

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

良 sound component

  Sound component

liáng

  

good

Evolution

浪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
浪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

làng

wave; wasteful, reckless; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated; to stroll; to ramble

Most common words with 浪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浪费

to waste

新浪

Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company

浪漫

romantic

wave

冲浪

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。”


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