梁

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梁 U+6881, 梁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6881
← 梀
[U+6880]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 梂 →
[U+6882]
梁 U+F97A, 梁
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F97A
← 凉
[U+F979]		 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 糧 →
[U+F97B]
See also: 粱 and 樑

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

梁 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水金木 (ECD) or 水戈木 (EID), four-corner 33904, composition ⿱⿰氵刅木(GJKV) or ⿱⿰氵刅朩(HT))

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 梁
alt. forms 鿄
𣸑
渿
𣹷
𨎛 “bridge for vehicles”
Wikipedia has an article on:
• 梁

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 梁
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
梁-bronze.svg 梁-silk.svg 梁-bigseal.svg 梁-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (刅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梁 *raŋ
粱 *raŋ
刱 *sʰraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raŋ): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 刅 (OC *sʰraŋ) + semantic 木 (“wood”) — a bridge.

Etymology[edit]

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Particularly: “Are the noun senses related to the proper noun senses?”

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • niû/niô͘ - vernacular;
  • liông/liâng - literary.
Note:
  • niên5, nion5 - vernacular (niên5 - Chaozhou);
  • liang5 - literary.
Rime
Character 梁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 呂章切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /liɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /liaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /lĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 liáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 梁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*raŋ/
English beam; bridge

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 梁
Reading # 1/1
No. 1648
Phonetic
component		 刅
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 良
Old
Chinese		 /*raŋ/

Definitions[edit]

梁

  1. Alternative form of 樑／梁 (liáng, “bridge; roof beam; ridge”).
  2. (historical) state of Liang
    1. An ancient Chinese state during the Spring and Autumn period
    2. An ancient Chinese state of Wei after moving its capital to Daliang
    3. An ancient Chinese state during the Han dynasty
    4. An ancient Chinese state during the Jin (晉) dynasty
    5. One of two ancient Chinese states during the end of the Sui dynasty
  3. (historical) Liang dynasty
    1. Southern Liang, one of the Southern Dynasties
    2. Later Liang of the Five Dynasties
  4. A surname​.
    Wikipedia has articles on:
    • 梁姓 (Written Standard Chinese?)
    • Liang (surname) (English)

Synonyms[edit]

See also[edit]

Dynasties (朝代) in Chinese history
Name Time period Divisions
Xia
夏 (～朝, ～代)		 2070 – 1600 BCE
Shang
商 (～朝, ～代)
殷 (～朝, ～代)		 1600 – 1046 BCE
Zhou
周 (～朝, ～代)		 1046 – 256 BCE Western Zhou
西周
Eastern Zhou
東周／东周		 Spring and Autumn period
春秋
Warring States period
戰國／战国
Qin
秦 (～朝, ～代)		 221 – 206 BCE
Han
漢／汉 (～朝, ～代)		 206 BCE – 220 CE Western Han
西漢／西汉
Xin
新 (～朝)
Eastern Han
東漢／东汉
Three Kingdoms
三國／三国		 220 – 280 CE Wei
魏
Shu
蜀
Wu
吳／吴
Jin
晉／晋 (～朝, ～代)		 265 – 420 CE Western Jin
西晉／西晋
Eastern Jin
東晉／东晋
Southern and Northern dynasties
南北朝		 420 – 589 CE Northern dynasties
北朝		 Northern Wei
北魏
Western Wei
西魏
Eastern Wei
東魏／东魏
Northern Zhou
北周
Northern Qi
北齊／北齐
Southern dynasties
南朝		 Liu Song
劉宋／刘宋
Southern Qi
南齊／南齐
Liang
梁 (～朝, ～代)
Chen
陳／陈 (～朝, ～代)
Sui
隋 (～朝, ～代)		 581 – 618 CE
Tang
唐 (～朝, ～代)		 618 – 907 CE
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
五代十國／五代十国		 907 – 960 CE
Liao
遼／辽 (～朝, ～代)		 907 – 1125 CE
Song
宋 (～朝, ～代)		 960 – 1279 CE Northern Song
北宋
Southern Song
南宋
Western Xia
西夏		 1038 – 1227 CE
Jin
金 (～朝, ～代)		 1115 – 1234 CE
Western Liao
西遼／西辽		 1124 – 1218 CE
Yuan
元 (～朝, ～代)		 1271 – 1368 CE
Ming
明 (～朝, ～代)		 1368 – 1644 CE
Qing
清 (～朝, ～代)		 1636 – 1912 CE

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 梁

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

梁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

梁 (hiragana はり, rōmaji hari)

  1. beam, joist

梁 (hiragana やな, rōmaji yana)

  1. fish trap, fish weir

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

梁 (lương, thông)

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