亮

Translingual

Stroke order (Mainland China)

Alternative forms

• In mainland China, the bottom component is written 几 while in other regions, the bottom component is written 儿 which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• A CJK compatibility ideograph exists at U+F977 for a duplicate code point in the KS X 1001 character set used in South Korea.

Han character

亮 (Kangxi radical 8, 亠+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月山 (YRBU), four-corner 0021₇, composition ⿳亠口冗 or ⿱⿳亠口冖几(G) or ⿱⿳亠口冖儿(HTJK or U+F977))

Derived characters

• 𬾻, 喨, 湸, 𫮌, 𫱍, 𢝋, 𪱧, 𭦾, 𪳄, 煷, 𤦻, 𭿏, 𮎝, 𮖞, 𭀴, 𭧓, 𮛽, 𨩎, 𭿧, 𩹗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 89, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 304
• Dae Jaweon: page 188, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 286, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EAE

• Unihan data for U+F977

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亮
Bronze inscriptions b13614 b13615 Small seal script s06359 Transcribed ancient scripts L37007 L37008 L37009 L24090 L24091 L24092 L24093 L24094 L24095 L24096 L24097
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raŋs) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 京 (OC *kraŋ, “building; tower”).

Etymology

Part of an Austroasiatic word family; compare Khmer (-rāṃṅa, “to be light; to be bright”) (Schuessler, 2007), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *raaŋʔ (“light; to shine”); as well as:

• ស្រាំង (srang, “to be pale; to be colourless”) with 爽 (OC *sraŋʔ),
• (brāṅa, “to grow light (after dark)”) with 炳 (OC *praŋʔ).
• បំព្រាង (bɑmpriəng, “to shed a pale light”) with 明 (OC *mraŋ).

Alternatively, STEDT compares it to Proto-Kuki-Chin *klaaŋ-I, *klaan-II (“to shine; light; bright”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

亮

1. bright; brilliant; radiant
2. loud and clear
3. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Wu, Xiang) lamp; light
4. to shine; to illuminate

   ^亮^島／^亮^岛 [Eastern Min]  ―  Liông-dō̤ / [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  Liang Island, Beigan, Lienchiang (Matsu), ROC (Taiwan)

   • 天色已暗啦　星星也亮啦 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 張露 (lyricist 秦冠), 《小小羊兒要回家》

     tiānsè yǐ àn la, xīngxing yě liàng la

     The sky has already darkened, and the stars have begun to show

5. (neologism) to be the highlight; to be epic
6. to make one's voice loud and clear; to raise one's voice
7. to reveal; to disclose
8. a surname

Synonyms

• (loud and clear):

Compounds

References

• “亮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. clear
2. help

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 亮らか); すけ (suke, 亮)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきら (akira); きょう (kyō); たすく (tasuku); ふさ (fusa); まこと (makoto); よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 亮月(りょうげつ) (ryōgetsu): bright moonlight
• 亮察(りょうさつ) (ryōsatsu): consideration
• 亮然(りょうぜん) (ryōzen): clear, obvious
• 亮直(りょうちょく) (ryōchoku): rightfulness
• 明亮(めいりょう) (meiryō): clarity

Proper noun

亮(りょう) • (Ryō) ^{←りやう (ryau)?}

1. a male given name

亮(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

亮 (eum 량 (ryang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

亮: Hán Nôm readings: lượng, lương

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References

• Nom Foundation