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良

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]
See also: 艮, 皀, 飠, 食, and 民

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

良 (radical 138 艮+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈日女 (IAV), four-corner 30732, composition ⿱丶艮)

  1. good, virtuous, respectable

Derived charactersEdit

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 良

EtymologyEdit

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

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 良
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
         
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 1Edit

Note:
  • liông/liâng - literary;
  • niû - vernacular.
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
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
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

DefinitionsEdit

良

  1. good

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms from 良

Pronunciation 2Edit

DefinitionsEdit

良

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

ReferencesEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

良

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. good

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

NounEdit

良 (hiragana りょう, rōmaji ryō, historical hiragana りやう)

  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 nounEdit

良 (hiragana りょう, rōmaji Ryō, historical hiragana りやう)

  1. A male given name

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

良 • (ryang>yang)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 량>양 (revised: ryang>yang, McCune-Reischauer: ryang>yang, Yale: lyang>yang)
    • Name (hangeul): 어질 (revised: eojil, McCune-Reischauer: ŏjil)
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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

良 (lương)

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