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琅

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

Translingual

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Han character

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

References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.
 琅
alternative forms 瑯

Glyph origin

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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

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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/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/lɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		láng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		long4
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

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琅

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a variety of white carnelian
  2. pure white
  3. a surname

Compounds

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Kanji

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琅

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. pure jewel

Readings

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  • Go-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kan-on: ろう (rō)

Korean

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Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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琅: Hán Nôm readings: lang

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