朗
lǎng HSK5

clear, bright

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Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.

Components

良
良 Sound component
月
月 Meaning component

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 Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartlangXk.rˤaŋʔ bright

說文解字

《說文》：“朗，明也。从月，良聲。”

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)