廊坊 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

láng corridor

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 郎 represents the sound.

Components

广 Meaning component

guǎng roof

郎 Sound component

láng gentleman

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lang	[r]ˤaŋ	side-gallery

說文解字

《說文新附》：“廊，東西序也。从广，郎聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

fang neighborhood

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

方 Sound component

fāng, fang square

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjang	[b]aŋ	dike
Zhengzhang		paŋ
		baŋ
Unicode	biɑng

說文解字

邑里之名。从土方聲。古通用埅。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)