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Translingual

Han character

(radical 53 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈戈中 (IIIL), four-corner 00227, composition广)

  1. corridor
  2. porch, veranda

References

  • KangXi: page 349, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9437
  • Dae Jaweon: page 660, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 890, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5ECA

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*raːl, *raːlʔ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ, *raːŋs
*raːŋ, *raŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ, *raŋ, *raŋs
*raːŋ, *raːŋs
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ, *raːŋs
*raːŋ, *raŋs
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ, *raːŋʔ
*raːŋ
*raːŋ
*raːŋʔ
*raːŋʔ
*raːŋʔ
*raːŋʔ
*raːŋʔ
*raːŋs
*raːŋs
*naŋ
*raŋ
*raŋ
*raŋs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
láng
Middle
Chinese
‹ lang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤaŋ/
English side-gallery

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8030
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*raːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 屧廊
  • 廊子
  • 廊廟廊庙
  • 廊廟器廊庙器
  • 廊廟宰廊庙宰
  • 廊廟材廊庙材
  • 廊廡廊庑
  • 廊簷
  • 廊腰
  • 廊院
  • 廟廊之彥庙廊之彦
  • 抄手遊廊抄手游廊
  • 拱廊
  • 柱廊
  • 步廊
  • 河西走廊
  • 波蘭走廊波兰走廊
  • 畫廊画廊 (huàláng)
  • 空中走廊
  • 穿廊
  • 藝廊艺廊
  • 走廊 (zǒuláng)
  • 超手遊廊超手游廊
  • 迴廊回廊 (huíláng)
  • 遊廊游廊
  • 遼西走廊辽西走廊
  • 酒廊
  • 長廊长廊
  • 響屧廊响屧廊
  • 髮廊发廊

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
ろう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (lang, side-gallery).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ろう, romaji )

  1. corridor

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(rang) (hangeul , revised rang, McCune-Reischauer rang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lang, láng, làng, sang)

  1. village

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for village is làng.
  • This character only means village in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning. The Chinese word for village is .