琅

See also: 瑯

琅 U+7405, 琅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7405 ← 琄 [U+7404] CJK Unified Ideographs 理 → [U+7406]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		琅
alternative forms		瑯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 琅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／形声, OC *raːŋ) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láng (lang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: láng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: láng
    • Wade–Giles: lang²
    • Yale: láng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lang
    • Palladius: лан (lan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: long⁴
    • Yale: lòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lông
    • Tâi-lô: lông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /lɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: lang

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
Baxter	lang
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	long4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːŋ/

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]ˁaŋ/	/*[r]ˁaŋ/
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

1. ^† a variety of white carnelian
2. pure white
3. a surname

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 (lánggān)
• 琅琅 (lángláng)
• 琅琊 (Lángyá)
• 琅琅上口
• 琅𤩝／琅𮴓
• 琅璫／琅珰 (lángdāng)
• 琅簡蘂書／琅简蕊书
• 琅邪 (Lángyá)
• 琅邪山
• 琳琅 (línláng)
• 琳琅滿目／琳琅满目 (línlángmǎnmù)
• 瑯嶠／琅峤
• 瑯琊／琅琊 (Lángyá)

 

Japanese

Kanji

琅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pure jewel

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)

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: Hán Nôm readings: lang

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