諒

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See also: 谅
諒 U+8AD2, 諒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AD2
← 諑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 諓 →
諒 U+F97D, 諒
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F97D
← 良
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 量 →

Translingual

Han character

諒 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜口火 (YRYRF), four-corner 00696, composition ⿰訁京)

  1. excuse, forgive
  2. guess, presume

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1168, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35653
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1633, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3991, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8AD2

Chinese

trad. 諒
simp. 谅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 諒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (京) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涼 *ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs
凉 *ɡ·raŋ
椋 *ɡ·raŋ
綡 *ɡ·raŋ
輬 *ɡ·raŋ
諒 *ɡ·raŋs
掠 *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ
弶 *ɡaŋs
京 *kraŋ
麖 *kraŋ
鶁 *kraŋ
景 *kraŋʔ
鯨 *ɡraŋ
黥 *ɡraŋ
勍 *ɡraŋ
剠 *ɡraŋ
倞 *ɡraŋs
影 *qraŋʔ
璟 *qraŋʔ, *kʷraŋʔ
憬 *kʷraŋʔ
暻 *kʷraŋʔ
澋 *ɡʷraːŋʔ

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 諒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力讓切
Baxter ljangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/liɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɨaŋH/
Li
Rong 		/liaŋH/
Wang
Li 		/lĭaŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		loeng6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 諒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liàng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljangH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*aŋ-s/
English sincere; trust (v.)

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 諒
Reading # 1/1
No. 6823
Phonetic
component 		京
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		亮
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡ·raŋs/

Definitions

諒

  1. to forgive; to sympathise
  2. to believe
  3. honest
  4. presumably

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

諒

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Japanese

Kanji

諒

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. (noun) truth

Readings

  • Go-on: ろう (rō)
  • Kan-on: りょう (ryō)
  • Kun: まこと (makoto, 諒)、あきらかにす (akirakanisu)
  • Nanori: まこと (makoto)

Compounds

See also

Proper noun

諒(りょう) • (Ryō) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

諒 (eumhun 믿을 량 (mideul ryang), word-initial (South Korea) 믿을 양 (mideul yang))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“excuse, forgive”)
  2. hanja form? of ] (“guess, presume”)

Vietnamese

Han character

諒: Hán Nôm readings: lượng, lạng

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