郎

郎 U+F92C, 郎 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F92C ← 狼 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 來 →

Translingual

Han character

郎 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈弓中 (IINL), four-corner 3772₇, composition ⿰良阝)

Derived characters

• 啷 嫏 鄉 𨖅 榔 瑯 𦗏 螂 𨄂 鎯 (𨱍) 蓈 𢀨 廊 鿾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1271, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39405
• Dae Jaweon: page 1770, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3770, character 8
• Unihan data for U+90CE

• Unihan data for U+F92C

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːŋ) : phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ) + semantic 邑 (“county; town”).

Etymology 1

STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-laŋ (“penis; male; husband”), including Burmese လင် (lang, “husband”) as a descendant.

However, Zev Handel considers comparison to this root to be improbable since the meaning of "husband; young man" is not attested in early texts. These senses seem to develop from "an official's title", which was a metonymic extension of "veranda or corridor (of a palace or mansion)" (later written as 廊) (Schuessler, 2007). Schuessler (2007) suggests that the Burmese word is a loan from Chinese.

Pronunciation

Definitions

郎

1. (historical) an official's title
2. (archaic, laudatory) man; male adult
3. (archaic) A term of address used by women for their husband or lover: darling; love
4. (archaic) A term of address used by servants for their master: sir; master
5. ^† father
6. young person
7. someone else's son
8. ^† soldier
9. (dated) man of a particular occupation
10. ^† A term of address for a poor, lowly person.
11. (literary or dialectal Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Gan, Xiang, Northern Min) son-in-law (daughter's husband)

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Definitions

郎

1. (historical) Lang (a town in the state of Lu, near modern Qufu, Shandong, China)
2. (historical) Lang (a town in the state of Lu, in the northeastern part of modern Yutai, Shandong, China)
3. a surname

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

郎

1. Only used in 屎殼郎／屎壳郎 (shǐkelàng).

References

• “郎”, 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

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

1. son

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: おとこ (otoko, 郎)^{←をとこ (wotoko, 郎, historical)}; お (o, 郎)^{←を (wo, 郎, historical)}
• Nanori: ひらつこ (hiratsuko)

Suffix

郎(ろう) • (-rō) 

1. suffixes certain male names

   鷲郎 ― Washirō

   太郎 ― Tarō (literally, “great (1st) son”)

   一郎 ― Ichirō (literally, “1st son”)

   二郎 ― Jirō (literally, “2nd son”)

   次郎 ― Jirō (literally, “next son”)

   三郎 ― Saburō (literally, “3rd son”)

   桃太郎 ― Momotarō

   小三郎 ― Kosaburō

   源三郎 ― Genzaburō

   四郎 ― Shirō (literally, “4th son”)

   総一郎 ― Sōichirō

   小四郎 ― Koshirō

   五郎 ― Gorō (literally, “5th son”)

   小五郎 ― Kogorō

   六郎 ― Rokurō (literally, “6th son”)

   七郎 ― Shichirō (literally, “7th son”)

   八郎 ― Hachirō (literally, “8th son”)

   九郎 ― Kurō (literally, “9th son”)

   十郎 ― Jūrō (literally, “10th son”)

See also

• 郎(いらつ)子(こ) (iratsuko)
• 郎(いらつ)女(め) (iratsume)
• 郎(ろう)君(くん) (rōkun), 郎(いらつ)君(きみ) (iratsukimi)

Korean

Hanja

郎 (eumhun 사내 랑 (sanae rang), South Korea 사내 낭 (sanae nang))

1. Hanja form^? of 랑 (“man”).
2. Hanja form^? of 낭 (“man (South Korea)”).

Vietnamese

Han character

郎: Hán Nôm readings: lang, lặng, lảng, loang, sang, loen, loẻn

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