廊

廊 U+5ECA, 廊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ECA ← 廉 [U+5EC9] CJK Unified Ideographs 廋 → [U+5ECB]

廊 U+F928, 廊 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F928 ← 蠟 [U+F927] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 朗 → [U+F929]

廊 U+2F88E, 廊 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F88E ← 庶 [U+2F88D] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𪎒 → [U+2F88F]

Translingual

Han character

廊 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈戈中 (IIIL), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广郎(GHTJ) or ⿸广郞(KV))

Derived characters

• 𭏱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 349, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9437
• Dae Jaweon: page 660, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 890, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5ECA

• Unihan data for U+F928

• Unihan data for U+2F88E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		廊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 廊
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) : semantic 广 + phonetic 郎 (OC *raːŋ).

良 may be the original form of this character, see there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láng (lang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): long⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): long³

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lông

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lang⁵

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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/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: long³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lông
    • Tâi-lô: lông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lang

Rime
Character	廊
Reading #	1/1
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	廊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	láng
Middle Chinese	‹ lang ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaŋ/
English	side-gallery
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	廊
Reading #	1/1
No.	8030
Phonetic component	良
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	郎
Old Chinese	/*raːŋ/
Notes	良轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 廊

1. covered corridor
2. porch; veranda

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Japanese

Shinjitai	廊
Kyūjitai	廊

Kanji

廊

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 廊)

1. corridor, passage

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Kun: わたどの (watadono, 廊)

Compounds

• 画(が)廊(ろう) (garō, “gallery”)
• 歩(ほ)廊(ろう) (horō, “corridor; platform”)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
廊
ろう Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
廊 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 廊 (lang, “side-gallery”).

Noun

廊(ろう) • (rō) 

1. corridor

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Korean

Hanja

廊 (eumhun 복도 랑 (bokdo rang), word-initial (South Korea) 복도 낭 (bokdo nang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

廊: Hán Nôm readings: lang, láng, làng, sang

1. village

Usage notes

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for village is làng.
• This character only means village in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning. The Chinese word for village is 村.