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

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/

Middle Chinese: /lɑŋ lɑŋ/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/laŋ/
Li Rong	/lɑŋ/
Wang Li	/lɑŋ/
Bernard 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

(onomatopoetic, of sound) clear and sonorous

Synonyms

Synonyms of 琅琅

亮 (liàng)
亮堂 (liàngtáng)
嘹亮 (liáoliàng)
宏亮 (hóngliàng)
朗朗 (lǎnglǎng)
洪亮 (hóngliàng)
清亮 (qīngliàng)

脆 (cuì)
豁亮 (huòliàng)
高亢 (gāokàng)
高昂 (gāo'áng)
昂揚／昂扬 (ángyáng)
響／响 (xiǎng)
響亮／响亮 (xiǎngliàng)

Derived terms

不琅琅
各琅琅
桑琅琅

琅琅上口
廝琅琅／厮琅琅
書聲琅琅／书声琅琅

Related terms

朗朗 (lǎnglǎng)

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