Chinese Character Wiki
良

liáng

good

Original meaning: 

hallway

Pictograph of a hallway, now written as 廊. The character is based on the original meaning "hallway". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

良 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
良 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
良 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
良 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

良  

liáng

good, virtuous, respectable; good; very; very much

Most common words with 良
Freq.
Word
Meaning

良好

good

善良

good and honest

不良

bad

良心

conscience

良

good

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

閬 阆

Sound component in 15 characters (5 verified)

娘 浪 朗 粮 郎 狼 酿 踉 琅 鋃 锒 閬 阆 莨 稂

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

籑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

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ljang

liáng

good


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.5073% of movies

1255th most common character in movies

835th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+826F

Shuowen

“良，善也。从畗省，亡聲。”


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