浪

Translingual

Han character

浪 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈日女 (EIAV), four-corner 3713₂, composition ⿰氵良)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 624, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17482
• Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1634, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6D6A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		浪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 浪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (良) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
剆	*raːl, *raːlʔ
郎	*raːŋ
稂	*raːŋ
桹	*raːŋ
鋃	*raːŋ
硠	*raːŋ
浪	*raːŋ, *raːŋs
蜋	*raːŋ, *raŋ
琅	*raːŋ
狼	*raːŋ
欴	*raːŋ
踉	*raːŋ, *raŋ, *raŋs
莨	*raːŋ, *raːŋs
艆	*raːŋ
駺	*raːŋ
躴	*raːŋ
筤	*raːŋ
閬	*raːŋ, *raːŋs
哴	*raːŋ, *raŋs
蓈	*raːŋ
廊	*raːŋ
榔	*raːŋ, *raːŋʔ
螂	*raːŋ
瑯	*raːŋ
朗	*raːŋʔ
朖	*raːŋʔ
誏	*raːŋʔ
俍	*raːŋʔ
崀	*raːŋʔ
埌	*raːŋs
蒗	*raːŋs
娘	*naŋ
良	*raŋ
粮	*raŋ
悢	*raŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːŋ, *raːŋs) : semantic 水 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 浪

1. wave
2. something resembling waves
3. dissolute
4. to stroll

   Template:zh-syn

5. (dialectal Mandarin or slang) to amuse oneself; to have fun; to go out; to hang out
6. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láng (lang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: láng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: láng
    • Wade–Giles: lang²
    • Yale: láng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lang
    • Palladius: лан (lan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: long⁴
    • Yale: lòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lang

Rime
Character	浪
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	魯當切
Baxter	lang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/laŋ/
Li Rong	/lɑŋ/
Wang Li	/lɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	láng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	long4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	浪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	láng
Middle Chinese	‹ lang ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaŋ/
English	(name of a river)
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	浪
Reading #	1/2
No.	8016
Phonetic component	良
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	郎
Old Chinese	/*raːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 浪

1. Only used in 滄浪／沧浪 (Cāngláng).

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

浪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. wave
2. wandering

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: らん (ran)
• Kun: なみ (nami, 浪)

Compounds

• 浪士
• 浪跡
• 浪人
• 浪費
• 浪漫
• 津(つ)浪(なみ) (tsunami, “tsunami”)

Noun

浪(なみ) • (nami) 

1. Alternative spelling of 波: waves

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Korean

Hanja

浪 • (rang>nang) (hangeul 랑>낭)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 浪 (lảng, lặng, rằng, lãng, lăng, trảng)

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