liàng
excuse, forgive
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 諒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to excuse | ||
to understand | ||
to empathize | ||
please forgive me | ||
to excuse |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]aŋ-s | ljangH | liàng | sincere; trust (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 31.7476% of movies
1149th most common character in movies
2120th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AD2 |
Shuowen | “諒，信也。从言，京聲。” |
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