漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
量: quantity, measure
Also: weight, amount, consider, estimate, surmise
里 carries the meaning · 旦 is drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 量りょうquantity, amount
- 数量すうりょうnumber, quantity
- 重量じゅうりょうweight
- 交通量こうつうりょうtraffic volume
- 消費量しょうひりょうamount of consumption
- 大量なたいりょうなlarge (quantity)
- 量産するりょうさんするproduce in large quantity
- 測量するそくりょうするmeasure
- 推量するすいりょうするguess
はかるhakaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 量るはかるmeasure, weigh
- 推し量るおしはかるconjecture, surmise
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)日 sun + 東 bag; east
Inconclusive. In the oracle bone and bronze scripts, the most common form was 日 (“sun”) + 東 (“bag; east”).
Source: Wiktionary, 量 (rev. 93809741), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Home is where the fields are! Imagine a cluster of small houses surrounded by rich soil and green crops.”
Connections
Also built on daybreak (旦)
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · liàng
Same form: 量 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 量 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 量 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin liàng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.