liǎ

two

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

两 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

liǎng

  

two

Evolution

俩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
俩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
俩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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liǎ

clever, skilled; two, pair; two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个); both; some

Most common words with 俩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

both

咱俩

the two of us

伎俩

trick

俩钱儿

erhua variant of 倆錢兒|俩钱儿[liǎ​qián​r]

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 56.7355% of movies

673rd most common character in movies

1574th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+4FE9


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