Chinese Character Wiki
朗

lǎng

clear, bright

Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.

Components
良 sound component

良  Sound component

liáng

  

good

月 meaning component

月  Meaning component

yuè

  

moon

Evolution

朗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
朗 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
朗 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
朗 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
朗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

朗  

lǎng

clear, bright; distinct; clear; bright

Most common words with 朗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伊朗

Iran

朗

clear

布朗

Brown (name)

明朗

bright

开朗

open and clear

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.rˤaŋʔ

langX

lǎng

bright


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 14.9608% of movies

1269th most common character in movies

1276th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6717

Shuowen

“朗，明也。从月，良聲。”


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