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榔
láng

betel-nut tree

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

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

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
郎
郎 Sound component
láng gentleman

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːŋ
raːŋʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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