朗

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朗 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈月 (IIB), four-corner 3772₀, composition ⿰良月)

• 𠻴, 㙟, 𢠯, 𪮡, 𣼽, 樃, 𤎜, 𤨡, 𦄺, 𫆍, 𬡨, 𠓇, 𨅉, 𡂯, 𫻠, 𬂆, 蓢, 𢀬, 𬕨, 𩅜, 𩡜, 塱, 㮾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 505, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14362
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2072, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6717

• Unihan data for U+F929

• Unihan data for U+FA92

• Unihan data for U+2F8D8

Historical forms of the character 朗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raːŋʔ): phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ) + semantic 月 (“moon”)

Areal etymon. Compare Khmer រង (rɔɔng, “be light, bright, become clear, clarify”), Old Mon to glitter (ˀaråṅ), Burmese ရောင် (raung, “brightness”), အရောင် (a.raung, “appearance, colour, luster”). Possibly related to 亮 (OC raŋh). (Schuessler, 2007)

朗

1. clear; bright
2. loud and clear

   朗讀／朗读  ―  lǎngdú  ―  to read aloud

3. (literary) understanding; enlightened

• “朗”, 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–

Shinjitai	朗
Kyūjitai [1]	朗 朗
	朗󠄀 朗+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	朗󠄆 朗+󠄆? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 朗)

1. (visually) bright, clear
2. (auditorily) sonorant, clear
3. (psychologically) merry, cheerful
4. Used in personal names.

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: ほがらか (hogaraka, 朗らか, Jōyō)、あきらか (akiraka, 朗らか)、ほがら (hogara, 朗ら)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、お (o)、さえ (sae)、とき (toki)、ほがら (hogara)、ろ (ro)

• 晴(せい)朗(ろう) (seirō)

From Middle Chinese 朗 (MC langX). Recorded as Middle Korean 랑 (lang) (Yale: lang) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

• (initial position)
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
• (non-initial position)
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

朗

Wikisource

朗 (eumhun 밝을 랑 (balgeul rang), word-initial (South Korea) 밝을 낭 (balgeul nang))

1. hanja form^? of 랑/낭 (“clear; bright”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

朗: Hán Việt readings: lãng (里(lí)黨(đảng)切(thiết))^[1][2][3]
朗: Nôm readings: lẳng^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, lặng^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, rạng^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, lảng^[1][2][3][4], lững^[1][2][3][4], lãng^[1][2][3], lửng^[1][2][5], láng^[1][2], lắng^[1][2], sang^[1][2], sáng^[1][2], lựng^[3][5], lẵng^[1], trắng^[1], rang^[3], lăng^[4], lứng^[4]

1. chữ Nôm form of lặng (“calm; silent; quiet”).