琅琅

Chinese

		(gem); tinkling of pendants	(gem); tinkling of pendants
simp. and trad. (琅琅)		琅	琅

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lángláng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ ㄌㄤˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lángláng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˊ ㄌㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lángláng
    • Wade–Giles: lang²-lang²
    • Yale: láng-láng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: langlang
    • Palladius: ланлан (lanlan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ³⁵ lɑŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lang lang

Rime
Character	琅
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	láng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	long4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaŋ  [r]ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːŋ  raːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	琅	琅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	láng	láng
Middle Chinese	‹ lang ›	‹ lang ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaŋ/	/*[r]ˁaŋ/
English	(a kind of precious stone)	琅邪 (name of a mountain in Shāndōng)
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	琅
Reading #	1/1
No.	8018
Phonetic component	良
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	郎
Old Chinese	/*raːŋ/

Adjective

琅琅

1. (onomatopoetic, of sound) clear and sonorous

Synonyms

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• 亮
• 亮堂 (liàngtáng)
• 嘹亮 (liáoliàng)
• 宏亮 (hóngliàng)
• 昂揚／昂扬 (ángyáng)
• 朗朗 (lǎnglǎng)
• 洪亮 (hóngliàng)
• 清亮
• 脆 (cuì)
• 豁亮 (huòliàng)
• 響／响 (xiǎng)
• 響亮／响亮 (xiǎngliàng)
• 高亢 (gāokàng)
• 高昂 (gāo'áng)

 

Derived terms

• 不琅琅
• 各琅琅
• 廝琅琅／厮琅琅
• 書聲琅琅／书声琅琅
• 桑琅琅
• 琅琅上口

 

Related terms

• 朗朗 (lǎnglǎng)