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浪

浪

Translingual

Han character

浪 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈日女 (EIAV), four-corner 37132, composition ⿰氵良)

References

  • KangXi: page 624, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17482
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1634, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6D6A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 浪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 浪
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːŋ, *raːŋs) : semantic 水 + phonetic 良 ‎(OC *raŋ).

Pronunciation

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

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 浪 浪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8016 8040
Phonetic
component		 良 良
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 郎 浪
Old
Chinese		 /*raːŋ/ /*raːŋs/

Definitions

浪

  1. wave
  2. something resembling waves
  3. to indulge
  4. dissolute

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

浪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

浪 ‎(hiragana なみ, romaji nami) (Same as 波)

  1. waves

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

浪 (lãng, lảng, lặng, rằng, lăng, trảng)

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