良朋

Chinese

		good; very; very much	friend
simp. and trad. (良朋)		良	朋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liángpéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄆㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): loeng⁴ pang⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liángpéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄆㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liángpéng
    • Wade–Giles: liang²-pʻêng²
    • Yale: lyáng-péng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liangperng
    • Palladius: лянпэн (ljanpɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑŋ³⁵ pʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: loeng⁴ pang⁴
    • Yale: lèuhng pàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loeng⁴ pang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêng⁴ peng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lœːŋ²¹ pʰɐŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ljang bong

Rime
Character	良	朋
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	呂章切	步崩切
Baxter	ljang	bong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨɐŋ/	/bəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/liɐŋ/	/bəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/liɑŋ/	/bəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɨaŋ/	/bəŋ/
Li Rong	/liaŋ/	/bəŋ/
Wang Li	/lĭaŋ/	/bəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯aŋ/	/bʱəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liáng	péng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	loeng4	pang4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]aŋ  [b]ˤəŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raŋ  bɯːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	良	朋
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liáng	péng
Middle Chinese	‹ ljang ›	‹ bong ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]aŋ/	/*[b]ˁəŋ/
English	good	set of cowries; friend
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	良	朋
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	8046	9663
Phonetic component	良	朋
Rime group	陽	蒸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		朋
Old Chinese	/*raŋ/	/*bɯːŋ/
Notes	甲金文象宮外兩邊有廊爲廊初文， 王侍從常在廊， 遂稱之良或郎得貴官義

Noun

良朋

1. (literary) good friend; true friend

   • 每有良朋，況也永歎。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     每有良朋，况也永叹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Měi yǒu liángpéng, kuàng yě yǒng tàn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 友好 (yǒuhǎo)
• 同袍 (tóngpáo) (literary)
• 執友／执友 (zhíyǒu) (literary)
• 好友 (hǎoyǒu)
• 相知 (xiāngzhī)
• 知交 (zhījiāo)
• 知友 (zhīyǒu)
• 知己 (zhījǐ)
• 知心 (zhīxīn)
• 知心朋友 (zhīxīn péngyou)
• 知言 (zhīyán) (literary)
• 知遇 (zhīyù) (literary)
• 知音 (zhīyīn)
• 良知 (liángzhī)
• 高朋 (gāopéng) (literary)
• 齒輪／齿轮 (ci³ nen²) (Sichuanese)