Wiktionary

良

See also: 艮, 皀, 飠, 食, and 民
良 U+826F, 良
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826F
← 艮
[U+826E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 艰 →
[U+8270]
良 U+F97C, 良
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F97C
← 糧
[U+F97B] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 諒 →
[U+F97D]

Translingual Edit

Stroke order
 

Han character Edit

良 (Kangxi radical 138, 艮+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈日女 (IAV), four-corner 30732, composition ⿱丶艮(GHT) or ⿱丨艮(JK) or ⿱一艮(V))

  1. good, virtuous, respectable

Derived characters Edit

Descendants Edit

References Edit

  • KangXi: page 1013, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30597
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1472, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3170, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+826F

Chinese Edit

simp. and trad.
 良
alternative forms
 
𡰩
𡆨
𥭣
𣌣
𣌩
𡰩
𡆨
𥭣
𣌣
𣌩
𥭷

Glyph origin Edit

Historical forms of the character 良
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script 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

Pictogram (象形). Possibly depicts corridors and a room, in which case it would be the original form of 廊.

Etymology Edit

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l(j)a(k/ŋ) (“good, beautiful”).

Pronunciation 1 Edit

Note:
  • liông/liâng - literary;
  • niû - vernacular.
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Rime
    Character 良
    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
    Baxter ljang
    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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		loeng4
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 良
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		liáng
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ ljang ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[r]aŋ/
    English good

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 8046
    Phonetic
    component         		良
    Rime
    group         		陽
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese         		/*raŋ/
    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

    Definitions Edit

    良

    1. good; fine; well
    2. good; virtuous; respectable
    3. good person; virtuous person
    4. (literary) innate; inherent; natural
    5. very; very much; quite
    6. (literary) really; certainly; surely
    7. (obsolete) term of address used by a woman for her husband
    8. a surname: Liang
    9. (Catholicism) Leo (papal name)
    Synonyms Edit
    • (good, fine):
    Dialectal synonyms of 好 (“good”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Classical Chinese 好, 良, 善, 佳
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 好, 良好, 美好, 佳
    Mandarin Beijing 好, 強
    Taiwan 好
    Jinan 好, 賽, 強
    Xi'an 好, 嫽
    Wuhan 好, 傲
    Chengdu 好
    Yangzhou 好
    Hefei 好, 㜺
    Singapore 好
    Cantonese Guangzhou 好, 㜺
    Hong Kong 好
    Taishan 好
    Yangjiang 好
    Singapore (Guangfu) 好
    Gan Nanchang 好
    Hakka Meixian 好, 㜺
    Miaoli (N. Sixian) 好
    Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 好
    Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 好
    Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 好
    Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 好
    Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 好
    Jin Taiyuan 好
    Min Bei Jian'ou 好
    Min Dong Fuzhou 好
    Min Nan Xiamen 好
    Tainan 好
    Penang (Hokkien) 好
    Singapore (Hokkien) 好
    Chaozhou 好
    Singapore (Teochew) 好
    Singapore (Hainanese) 好
    Wu Shanghai 好, 㜺, 靈, 嗲
    Suzhou 好, 㜺
    Wenzhou 好
    Xiang Changsha 好
    Shuangfeng 好
    • (very):

    Compounds Edit

    Pronunciation 2 Edit

    Definitions Edit

    良

    1. Only used in 方良, alternative form of 魍魎／魍魉 (wǎngliǎng)

    References Edit

    Japanese Edit

    Kanji Edit

    良

    (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. good

    Readings Edit

    Compounds Edit

    Etymology Edit

    Kanji in this term
    良
    りょう
    Grade: 4
    kan’on

    Noun Edit

    良(りょう) • (ryō) ←りやう (ryau)?

    1. (school mark) good, B
      数学(すうがく)の成績(せいせき)は良(りょう)だった
      sūgaku no seiseki wa ryō datta
      I got a B in math

    Proper noun Edit

    良(りょう) • (Ryō) ←りやう (ryau)?

    1. a male given name

    Korean Edit

    Etymology Edit

    From Middle Chinese 良 (MC ljang).

    Historical Readings
    Dongguk Jeongun Reading
    Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 랴ᇰ (Yale: lyàng)
    Middle Korean
    Text Eumhun
    Gloss (hun) Reading
    Gwangju Cheonjamun, 1575 알 (Yale: al) 량 (Yale: lyang)
    Sinjeung Yuhap, 1576 어딜 (Yale: etil) 량 (Yale: lyang)
    Seokbong Cheonjamun, 1583 어딜 (Yale: etil) 냥 (Yale: nyang)

    Pronunciation Edit

    Hanja Edit

    良 (eumhun 어질 량 (eojil ryang), South Korea 어질 양 (eojil yang))

    1. Hanja form? of 양 (“good”). [affix]
    2. Hanja form? of 량 (“good”). [affix]

    Compounds Edit

    Compounds

    Old Korean Edit

    Etymology 1 Edit

    Phonogram Edit

    良 (*a)

    1. A syllabic phonogram denoting the syllable *a (generally not word-initial)

    Etymology 2 Edit

    Suffix Edit

    良 (*-a)

    1. The verbal and adjectival infinitive suffix.
    Descendants Edit
    • Middle Korean: 어〮 (-é), 아〮 (-á)

    Etymology 3 Edit

    Particle Edit

    良 (*-a)

    1. in; at; on; locative case marker, attested primarily in hyangga poems
      • c. 750, 月明師 (Wolmyeongsa), “祭亡妹歌 (Jemangmae-ga)”, in 三國遺事 (Samguk Yusa):
        一等隱枝良出古
        *HAton KACI-a NA-kwo
        even though they sprout on a single branch
    Usage notes Edit
    • First-millennium Old Korean also featured the locative particle 中 (*-kuy). The two particles were compounded as 良中 (*-a-kuy) as early as the seventh century. The compounded form becomes predominant in the corpus after the eleventh century, after which 良 (*-a) in isolation is not encountered. The compounded form eventually fused into a single morpheme, becoming the Middle Korean locative particle 에〮/애〮 (-éy/áy).
    • After the fourteenth century, Korean scribes occasionally reused the character 良 to write 에〮/애〮 (-éy/áy). This is a feature of Middle Korean writing, not Old Korean.
    Descendants Edit
    • Old Korean: 良中 (*-akuy) (compounded with 中 (*-kuy))
    See also Edit
    • 中 (*-kuy) (locative case marker)
    • 矣 (*-uy) (locative case marker)
    • 良中 (*-akuy) (locative case marker predominant after the eleventh century)

    References Edit

    • 배대은 (Bae Dae-eun) (1996), “Idu cheogyeok josa-ui tongsijeok gochal [A diachronic study of locative case markers in Idu]”, in Baedalmal, volume 21, pages 139–156
    • 이승재 (Lee Seung-jae) (2000), “Chaja pyogi jaryo-ui gyeokjosa yeon'gu [Study of case markers in the Chinese-based orthography [of Korean]]”, in Gugeo Gukmunhak, volume 127, pages 107–132
    • Hwang Seon-yeop (2006). "Godae gugeo-ui cheogyeok josa" 고대국어의 처격조사] ["The locative case markers of Old Korean"]. Hanmal Yeon'gu Hakhoe Jeon'guk Haksul Daehoe (conference). Seongnam, South Korea. pp. 35–48.
    • Nam Pung-hyun (2012), “Old Korean”, in The Languages of Japan and Korea, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 41–72

    Vietnamese Edit

    Han character Edit

    良: Hán Nôm readings: lương

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