láng

a variety of white carnelian

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

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

良 sound component

  Sound component

liáng

  

good

Evolution

琅 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
琅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
琅 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
琅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

láng

a variety of white carnelian; pure; jade-like stone; clean and white; tinkling of pendants

() 

Láng

see 瑯琊山|琅玡山[Láng​yá​Shān]

() 

láng

(gem)

Most common words with 琅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

琳琅满目

fig. a dazzling lineup

jade-like stone

珐琅

enamel

珐琅质

tooth enamel

施琅

Shi Lang (1621-1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤaŋ

lang

láng

(a kind of precious stone)

*[r]ˤaŋ

lang

láng

琅邪 (name of a mountain in Shāndōng)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3585th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7405

Shuowen

“琅,琅玕,似珠者。从玉,良聲。”


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