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郎

郎

See also: 郞

Translingual

Han character

郎 (radical 163 邑+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈弓中 (IINL), four-corner 37727)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1271, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39405
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1770, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3770, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+90CE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 郎

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 郎
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 郎 郎
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 láng láng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lang › ‹ lang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.rˤaŋ/ /*rˤaŋ/
English young gentleman double roof

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 郎
Reading # 1/1
No. 8011
Phonetic
component		 良
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 郎
Old
Chinese		 /*raːŋ/

Definitions

郎

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Japanese

Kanji

郎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. son

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

郎 (lang, lảng, loang, sang, loen, loẻn)

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