漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
朗: melodious, clear
Also: bright, serene, cheerful
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
月 carries the meaning · 良 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ロウrou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 朗報ろうほうgood news
- 明朗なめいろうなbright, clear, cheerful
- 朗々とろうろうとclear, sonorous, full-sounding
- 朗読するろうどくするread aloud, recite
- 朗読ろうどく
- 明朗めいろう
ほがらかhogaraka · kun'yomi · on its own
- 朗らかなほがらかなbright, cheerful
- 朗らかほがらか
Also read あきらか, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)良 (sound) + 月 moon (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 朗 (rev. 92749935), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Good/good (良) + moon (月). To be as "good" and "bright" as the "moon" in the night sky—representing a "cheerful" and clear personality.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side朗 melodious · 月
vs郎 son · ⻏In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lǎng
Same form: 朗 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 朗 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 朗 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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