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 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

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): láng (lang²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, 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–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: long⁴
  - Yale: lòhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: long⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: long⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lông
  - Tâi-lô: lông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loong
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /lɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese: lang

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

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

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

Compounds

不琅琅
不琅鼓
乞留玎琅
各琅琅
天祿琳琅 / 天禄琳琅
廝琅琅 / 厮琅琅
施琅
明琅
書聲琅琅 / 书声琅琅
林琅
桑琅琅
玕琅
玲琅
琅函
琅玕 (lánggān)
琅琅 (lángláng)
琅琊 (Lángyá)
琅琅上口
琅𤩝 / 琅𮴓
琅璫 / 琅珰 (lángdāng)
琅簡蘂書 / 琅简蕊书
琅邪 (Lángyá)
琅邪山
琳琅 (línláng)
琳琅滿目 / 琳琅满目 (línlángmǎnmù)
瑯嶠 / 琅峤
瑯琊 / 琅琊 (Lángyá)

Japanese

Kanji

琅

(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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