浪

浪 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈日女 (EIAV), four-corner 3713₂, composition ⿰氵良)

• 𠺘, 𰖟, 𨃹, 𰀯, 𡻔, 蒗, 𨶗, 𫫐, 𪤊, 𭔻, 𱫸, 𥶞

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 624, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17482
• Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1634, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6D6A

• Unihan data for U+F92A

Historical forms of the character 浪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːŋ, *raːŋs) : semantic 水 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ).

May be a colloquial variant of 瀾／澜 (lán, “wave”). Probably not related to Tibetan དབའ་ཀློང (dba' klong, “wave”) (Schuessler, 2007).

浪

1. wave

   • 長風破浪會有時，直掛雲帆濟滄海。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 774, 李白, 行路難·其一

     Chángfēngpòlàng huì yǒu shí, zhí guà yúnfān jì cānghǎi.

     I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, and set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

2. something resembling waves

   麥浪／麦浪  ―  màilàng  ―  billowing wheat fields

3. to be unrestrained

   浪費／浪费  ―  làngfèi  ―  to waste

4. dissolute

   浪蕩／浪荡  ―  làngdàng  ―  dissolute; dissipated

   狂蜂浪蝶  ―  kuángfēnglàngdié  ―  lascivious men

5. (dialectal Mandarin or slang) to amuse oneself; to have fun; to go out; to hang out; to stroll

   你又去哪兒浪去了？ [MSC, trad.]
   你又去哪儿浪去了？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ yòu qù nǎr làng qi le?

   Where have you been playin’ out this time?

6. (literary) in vain

   我可不是浪得虛名！看招！ [MSC, trad.]
   我可不是浪得虚名！看招！ [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ kě bù shì làngdéxūmíng! Kàn zhāo!

   I did not gain a fake reputation for nothing! Take this!

7. a surname

浪

1. Only used in 滄浪／沧浪 (Cāngláng) and 浪浪 (lángláng).

Lenition of 上: /zɑ̃¹¹³/ > /lɑ̃¹¹³/ (Shanghainese pronunciation). Compare 哉 (/zəʔ/), which underwent a similar process to 了 (/ləʔ/).

浪 (Wu)

1. on; above; at; in

   街浪 [Suzhounese]  ―  ¹ka-laon₆ [Wugniu]  ―  on the streets

   鑊頭浪／镬头浪 [Haining Wu]  ―  ⁸ghoq-deu₂-laon₆ [Wugniu]  ―  in a wok

   衣裳擺垃床浪。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   衣裳摆垃床浪。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   From: 2007, Qian Nairong, 上海话大词典, page 8

   ¹i-zaon ⁵pa-laq ⁶zaon-laon [Wugniu]

   Put the clothes on the bed.

2. indicates a place

   迭浪 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁸diq-laon₆ [Wugniu]  ―  here

   何浪 [Suburban Shanghainese]  ―  ²wu-laon₆ [Wugniu]  ―  where

• 上

From English furlong.

浪

1. furlong

(Jōyō kanji)

1. wave
2. wandering

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: らん (ran)
• Kun: なみ (nami, 浪)

• 浪士
• 浪跡
• 浪(ろう)人(にん) (rōnin, “ronin”)
• 浪費
• 浪漫
• 津(つ)浪(なみ) (tsunami, “tsunami”)

• IPA^(key):

浪(ろう) • (-rō) ^{←らう (-rau)?}

1. failing the annual university entrance exams (see 浪人)

   二浪目(にろうめ)

   nirōme

   second time failing the annual university entrance exams

From Middle Chinese 浪 (MC langH). Recorded as Middle Korean 라ᇰ〯 (lǎng) (Yale: lǎng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (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:

浪

Wikisource

浪 (eumhun 물결 랑 (mulgyeol rang), word-initial (South Korea) 물결 낭 (mulgyeol nang))

1. hanja form^? of 랑/낭 (“wave”)

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

浪: Hán Nôm readings: lảng, lặng, rằng, lãng, lăng, trảng

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