量

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 曰 (“speak”) + 重 (“weight”) – to speak the weight, to measure. In current form graphically 旦 + 里.

Han character

量 (radical 166 里+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日一田土 (AMWG), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿱旦里)

1. measure, quantity, capacity

References

• KangXi: page 1292, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40138
• Dae Jaweon: page 1794, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3683, character 2
• Unihan data for U+91CF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

量 (Yale leung4, leung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

量 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: りょう (ryō)
• Kun: はかる (hakaru)

Compounds

• 量子
• 量感
• 量産
• 降水量 (こうすいりょう, kōsuiryō)
• 小量
• 少量
• 定量
• 狭量
• 考量
• 計量

Noun

量 (hiragana りょう, romaji ryō)

1. volume, amount

Suffix

量 (hiragana りょう, romaji ryō)

1. amount, volume, portion of food

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Korean

Hanja

量 (hangeul 량>양, revised ryang>yang, McCune-Reischauer ryang>yang, Yale lyang>yang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

量 (pinyin liàng (liang4), liáng (liang2), Wade-Giles liang⁴, liang²)

Noun

liàng 量

Compounds

• 量变
• 量才
• 量词
• 量力
• 量刑
• 量子

Verb

liáng 量

Compounds

• 量杯
• 量程
• 量度
• 量规
• 量具

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Vietnamese

Han character

量 (lượng, lường)