廊

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廊 U+5ECA, 廊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ECA
← 廉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 廋 →

廊 U+F928, 廊
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F928
← 蠟
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 朗 →
廊 U+2F88E, 廊
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F88E
← 庶
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𪎒 →

Translingual

Han character

廊 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈戈中 (IIIL), four-corner 00227, composition ⿸广郎(GHTJ) or ⿸广郞(KV))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 349, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9437
  • Dae Jaweon: page 660, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 890, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5ECA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 廊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 廊
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 广 + phonetic 郎 (OC *raːŋ).

良 may be the original form of this character, see there for more.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 廊
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		láng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		long4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 廊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		láng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaŋ/
English side-gallery

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 廊
Reading # 1/1
No. 8030
Phonetic
component 		良
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		郎
Old
Chinese 		/*raːŋ/
Notes 良轉註字

Definitions

廊

  1. covered corridor
  2. porch; veranda

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

廊

  1. (Singapore Hokkien) workshop; atelier (place where goods are made or repaired)
Synonyms

Japanese

Shinjitai 廊
Kyūjitai
廊
&#xF928;
or
廊+&#xFE00;?
廊󠄁
廊+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
廊󠄄
廊+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

廊

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 廊)

  1. corridor, passage

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
廊
ろう
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
廊 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 廊 (MC lang, “side-gallery”).

Pronunciation

Noun

廊(ろう) • (rō) 

  1. corridor

References

  1. ^ “廊”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

廊 (eumhun 복도 랑 (bokdo rang), South Korea 복도 낭 (bokdo nang))

  1. Hanja form? of 랑/낭 (“corridor, porch, veranda”).

Vietnamese

Han character

廊: Hán Nôm readings: lang, láng, làng, sang

  1. village

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for village is làng.
  • This character only means village in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning. The Chinese word for village is 村.
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