閬

See also: 阆

閬 U+95AC, 閬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95AC ← 閫 [U+95AB] CJK Unified Ideographs 閭 → [U+95AD]

Translingual

Han character

閬 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日弓戈日女 (ANIAV), four-corner 7773₂, composition ⿵門良)

1. dry moat outside a city wall
2. (of door) high, spacious

Derived characters

• 䕞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1335, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41330
• Dae Jaweon: page 1841, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4302, character 5
• Unihan data for U+95AC

Chinese

trad.		閬
simp.		阆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閬
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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láng, làng (lang², lang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ, ㄌㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁵, long⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lòng

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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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: làng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: làng
    • Wade–Giles: lang⁴
    • Yale: làng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lanq
    • Palladius: лан (lan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: long⁵, long⁶
    • Yale: lóhng, lohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁵, long⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁵, long⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ¹³/, /lɔːŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lòng
    • Tâi-lô: lòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loxng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lang, langH

Rime
Character	閬	閬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	魯當切	來宕切
Baxter	lang	langH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/laŋ/	/laŋH/
Li Rong	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Wang Li	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑŋ/	/lɑŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	láng	làng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	long4	long6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːŋ/, /*raːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閬	閬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8027	8041
Phonetic component	良	良
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	郎	浪
Old Chinese	/*raːŋ/	/*raːŋs/

Definitions

閬

1. ^† lofty
2. ^† spacious; empty

Compounds

• 崑閬／昆阆
• 爣閬／𬊵阆
• 瑤池閬苑／瑶池阆苑
• 蓬閬／蓬阆
• 閬中／阆中
• 閬苑／阆苑
• 閬閬／阆阆 (lángláng)
• 閬風／阆风

 

References

• “閬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

閬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. high door
2. high gate
3. high
4. loft

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}; どう (dō)
• Kan-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}; とう (tō)

Korean

Hanja

閬 • (rang>nang) (hangeul 랑>낭, revised rang>nang, McCune–Reischauer rang>nang, Yale lang>nang)

1. a tall [lofty] gate
2. monster
3. a moat
4. testicles

Vietnamese

Han character

閬: Hán Nôm readings: lãng

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