夜郎

Chinese

		night	youth
simp. and trad. (夜郎)		夜	郎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yèláng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶ long⁴

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yèláng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yèláng
    • Wade–Giles: Yeh⁴-lang²
    • Yale: Yè-láng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yehlang
    • Palladius: Елан (Jelan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹ lɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁶ long⁴
    • Yale: yeh lòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶ long⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶ long⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²² lɔːŋ²¹/

---

• Middle Chinese: yaeH lang

Rime
Character	夜	郎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	羊謝切	魯當切
Baxter	yaeH	lang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiaH/	/lɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/jiaH/	/lɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/iaH/	/lɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaH/	/laŋ/
Li Rong	/iaH/	/lɑŋ/
Wang Li	/jĭaH/	/lɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯aH/	/lɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yè	láng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	je6	long4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]Ak-s  C.rˤaŋ|rˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*laːɡs  raːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夜	郎	郎
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yè	láng	láng
Middle Chinese	‹ yæH ›	‹ lang ›	‹ lang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]Ak-s/	/*C.rˁaŋ/	/*rˁaŋ/
English	night	young gentleman	double roof
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	夜	郎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14992	8011
Phonetic component	亦	良
Rime group	暮	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	夜	郎
Old Chinese	/*laːɡs/	/*raːŋ/

Proper noun

夜郎

1. Yelang (ancient political entity in present-day western Guizhou province, China)

Derived terms

• 夜郎自大 (yèlángzìdà)