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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]

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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(GHT) or ⿱丨艮(JK) or ⿱一艮(V))

  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

Glyph originEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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

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

CompoundsEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

良 (lương)

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