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梁

梁

梁 U+6881, 梁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6881
← 梀
[U+6880] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 梂 →
[U+6882]
See also: 粱 and 樑

Translingual

Han character

梁 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水金木 (ECD) or 水戈木 (EID), four-corner 33904, composition ⿱⿰氵刅木)

References

  • KangXi: page 528, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14825
  • Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1220, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6881

Chinese

trad. 梁/樑
simp. 梁
alt. forms 鿄
𣸑
渿
𣹷
𨎛 “bridge for vehicles”
樑: “beam; ridge; bridge”

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 梁
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (刅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梁 *raŋ
粱 *raŋ
刱 *sʰraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raŋ) : semantic 水 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 刅 ‎(OC *sʰraŋ) + semantic 木 ‎(“wood”) — a bridge.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 梁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 呂章切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /liɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /liaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /lĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 liáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 梁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*raŋ/
English beam; bridge

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 梁
Reading # 1/1
No. 1648
Phonetic
component		 刅
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 良
Old
Chinese		 /*raŋ/

Definitions

梁

  1. bridge
  2. roof beam
    • 棟梁 / 栋梁  ―  dòngliáng  ―  ridgepole, pillar, anchor, mainstay
  3. ridge
    • 鼻梁  ―  bíliáng  ―  bridge (of a nose)
  4. (historical) state of Liang
    1. An ancient Chinese state during the Spring and Autumn period
    2. An ancient Chinese state of Wei after moving its capital to Daliang
    3. An ancient Chinese state during the Han dynasty
    4. An ancient Chinese state during the Jin (晉) dynasty
    5. One of two ancient Chinese states during the end of the Sui dynasty
  5. (historical) Liang dynasty
    1. Southern Liang, one of the Southern Dynasties
    2. Later Liang of the Five Dynasties
  6. A surname​.

Synonyms

  • (state of Wei): 魏 (wèi), 魏國／魏国 (Wèiguó)
  • (state): 梁國／梁国 (Liángguó)
  • (dynasty): 梁朝
  • (Southern Liang): 南梁, 蕭梁／萧梁
  • (Later Liang): 後梁／后梁, 朱梁

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

梁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

梁 ‎(hiragana はり, romaji hari)

  1. beam, joist

梁 ‎(hiragana やな, romaji yana)

  1. fish trap, fish weir

Korean

Hanja

梁 • ‎(ryang>yang) (hangeul 량>양, revised ryang>yang, McCune-Reischauer ryang>yang, Yale lyang>yang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

梁 (lương, thông)

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