liàng, liáng
measure
Phonosemantic compound. 東 (pictograph of a bag) represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 量
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
power | ||
quality | ||
great amount | ||
as much as possible | ||
capacity |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]aŋ | ljang | liáng | measure (v.) |
*[r]aŋ-s | ljangH | liàng | measure (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 70.6551% of movies
518th most common character in movies
241st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+91CF |
Shuowen | “量,稱輕重也。从重省,曏省聲。,古文量。” |
Sources
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