琅

See also: 瑯

琅	U+7405, 琅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7405

← 琄
[U+7404]

CJK Unified Ideographs

理 →
[U+7406]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

KangXi: 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

simp. and trad.		琅
alternative forms		瑯

Glyph origin

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, OC *raːŋ) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): láng (lang²)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁴
Min Nan (POJ): lông

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/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: long⁴
  - Yale: lòhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: long⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: long⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lông
  - Tâi-lô: lông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loong
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /lɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese: /lɑŋ/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/laŋ/
Li Rong	/lɑŋ/
Wang Li	/lɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	láng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	long⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaŋ/
(Zhengzhang): /*raːŋ/

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

琅

^† a variety of white carnelian
pure white
a surname

Compounds

不琅琅
不琅鼓
乞留玎琅
各琅琅
施琅
明琅
林琅
桑琅琅
玕琅

玲琅
琅函
琅玕 (lánggān)
琅琅 (lángláng)
琅琅上口
琅琊
琅邪
琅邪山
琅𤩝

琳琅
天祿琳琅／天禄琳琅
廝琅琅／厮琅琅
書聲琅琅／书声琅琅
琅璫／琅珰
琅簡蘂書／琅简蕊书
琳琅滿目／琳琅满目
瑯嶠／琅峤 (Lángqiáo)
瑯琊／琅琊 (Lángyá)

Japanese

Kanji

琅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

pure jewel

Readings

Go-on: ろう (rō)

Kan-on: ろう (rō)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

琅: Hán Nôm readings: lang

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