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郎

láng

gentleman

Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound. Originally a place name for what is now Shandong province. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
良 sound component

良  Sound component

liáng

  

good

⻏ meaning component

⻏  Meaning component

yì

  

city

⻏ is a component form of 邑.

Evolution

郎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
郎 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
郎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

郎  

láng

gentleman, young man; husband; (arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status; a youth

郎  

Láng

surname Lang

Most common words with 郎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

郎

official

女郎

maiden

新郎

groom

伴郎

best man

法郎

franc

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

廊 瑯 螂 榔 啷

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.rˤaŋ

lang

láng

young gentleman

*rˤaŋ

lang

láng

double roof


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 13.3429% of movies

1437th most common character in movies

1457th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+90CE

Shuowen

“郎，魯亭也。从邑，良聲。”


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