廊
láng HSK7

corridor

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

Components

广
广 Meaning component
guǎng roof
郎
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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlang[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)