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琅

琅

See also: 瑯

Translingual

Han character

琅 (radical 96 玉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈日女 (MGIAV), four-corner 13132)

  1. a variety of white carnelian
  2. pure

References

  • KangXi: page 733, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21013
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1144, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1118, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7405

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 琅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 琅
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (良) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
剆 *raːl, *raːlʔ
郎 *raːŋ
稂 *raːŋ
桹 *raːŋ
鋃 *raːŋ
硠 *raːŋ
浪 *raːŋ, *raːŋs
蜋 *raːŋ, *raŋ
琅 *raːŋ
狼 *raːŋ
欴 *raːŋ
踉 *raːŋ, *raŋ, *raŋs
莨 *raːŋ, *raːŋs
艆 *raːŋ
駺 *raːŋ
躴 *raːŋ
筤 *raːŋ
閬 *raːŋ, *raːŋs
哴 *raːŋ, *raŋs
蓈 *raːŋ
廊 *raːŋ
榔 *raːŋ, *raːŋʔ
螂 *raːŋ
瑯 *raːŋ
朗 *raːŋʔ
朖 *raːŋʔ
誏 *raːŋʔ
俍 *raːŋʔ
崀 *raːŋʔ
埌 *raːŋs
蒗 *raːŋs
娘 *naŋ
良 *raŋ
粮 *raŋ
悢 *raŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 琅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 魯當切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /laŋ/
Li
Rong		 /lɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /lɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 láng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 琅 琅
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 láng láng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lang › ‹ lang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤaŋ/ /*[r]ˤaŋ/
English (a kind of precious stone) 琅邪 (name of a mountain in Shāndōng)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 琅
Reading # 1/1
No. 8018
Phonetic
component		 良
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 郎
Old
Chinese		 /*raːŋ/

Definitions

琅

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Compounds

  • 不琅琅
  • 不琅鼓
  • 乞留玎琅
  • 各琅琅
  • 天祿琳琅／天禄琳琅
  • 廝琅琅／厮琅琅
  • 施琅
  • 明琅
  • 書聲琅琅／书声琅琅
  • 林琅
  • 桑琅琅
  • 玕琅
  • 玲琅
  • 琅函
  • 琅玕
  • 琅琅
  • 琅琅上口
  • 琅璫／琅珰
  • 琅簡蘂書／琅简蘂书
  • 琅邪
  • 琅邪山
  • 琳琅
  • 琳琅滿目／琳琅满目

Japanese

Kanji

琅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

琅 • ‎(rang>nang) (hangeul 랑>낭, revised rang>nang, McCune-Reischauer rang>nang, Yale lang>nang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

琅 (lang)

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