量
Translingual
Han character
量 (Kangxi radical 166, 里+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日一田土 (AMWG), four-corner 60104, composition ⿱旦里)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1292, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40138
- Dae Jaweon: page 1794, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3683, character 2
- Unihan data for U+91CF
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
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alternative forms | 𣊹 𨤥 𨤦 ⿱旦力 second round simplified |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 量 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Inconclusive. In the oracle bone and bronze scripts, the most common form was 日 (“sun”) + 東 (“bag; east”). Here are a few proposed interpretations as an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) :
- 日 was sometimes replaced with 田, so Qiu Xigui thinks that it may be the original character of 糧 (OC *raŋ, “grain field”).
- Yu Xingwu interprets it as measuring something under the sun.
- Guo Moruo interprets it as the sun rising in the east – original character of 亮 (OC *raŋs).
Shuowen interprets this as a phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *raŋ, *raŋs) : phonetic 曏 (OC *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs) + 重 (“weight; heavy”).
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)raŋ (“to count, to measure”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007). Cognate to Tibetan བགྲང (bgrang, “to count”), Khaling ʾkhran-ne, Burmese [script needed] (kʰraŋ, “to measure capacity”), Nusu xɹɯ³¹ (“to count”).
Pronunciation 2 is possibly a *-s suffixed exopassive derivation of Pronunciation 1; thus it means "what is measured → a measure" and is cognate to Tibetan [script needed] (grangs, “number”) (see also Unger (1983))
Pronunciation 1
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Definitions
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2
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Definitions
- (historical) measuring vessel, such as the dou or hu
- measure; measurement; quantity
- capacity; volume
- (Buddhist logic) pramana
- (Southern Min) large steelyard
- to estimate; to approximate
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term |
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量 |
りょう Grade: 4 |
on'yomi |
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 量 (ljangH, “measure”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term |
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量 |
はか Grade: 4 |
kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
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Noun
量 • (haka) Form of 量り (hakari)
- an instrument to measure
References
Korean
Hanja
量 • (ryang>yang) (hangeul 량>양, revised ryang>yang, McCune–Reischauer ryang>yang, Yale lyang>yang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
(deprecated template usage) 量 (lường, lượng, nhân)
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