量 - Dong Chinese dictionary

liàng, liáng

measure

Phonosemantic compound. 東 (pictograph of a bag) represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.

Components

昜 Sound Remnant component

yáng

bright

Modern form written like 旦.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 昜 than it was in ancient scripts.

東 Iconic Remnant component

dōng

east

Depicts a bag. Modern form written like 里.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 東 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

量

liàng

measure, quantity, capacity; capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词[liàngcí], classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word

量

liáng

to measure

Most common words with 量

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	力量	power
	质量	quality
	大量	great amount
	尽量	as much as possible
	量	capacity

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

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Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[r]aŋ	ljang	liáng	measure (v.)
*[r]aŋ-s	ljangH	liàng	measure (n.)

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 70.6551% of movies

518th most common character in movies

241st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+91CF
Shuowen	“量，稱輕重也。从重省，曏省聲。，古文量。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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