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谅

liàng

excuse, forgive

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound. Simplified form of 諒.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

京 sound component

京  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

谅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
谅 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
谅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

谅 (諒) 

liàng

excuse, forgive; guess, presume; to show understanding; to excuse; to presume; to expect

Most common words with 谅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

原谅

to excuse

谅解

to understand

体谅

to empathize

见谅

please forgive me

谅

to excuse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]aŋ-s

ljangH

liàng

sincere; trust (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 31.7476% of movies

1149th most common character in movies

2120th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

諒

Unicode

U+8C05


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