量 · liàng
measure, quantity, capacity
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
measure, quantity, capacity
- Mandarin
- liàng
- Cantonese
- loeng4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 量 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 량
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 양
- KS X 1001 (0)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+91CF
- Radical
- 里 · 166
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 量
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ljang · 呂章 反切 · #807
- Middle Chinese
- ljangH · 力讓 反切 · #2892
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6435 · ljang = 宕開三平陽來 · ljangH = 宕開三去陽來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- liàng
- kCantonese
- loeng4
- kDefinition
- measure, quantity, capacity
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 166.5
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:2616
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- liáng,liàng 63683.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- liáng 0707.050 · liàng 0710.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- liáng 221.040 · liàng 222.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- liàng(1265) liang(433) liáng(208)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- liáng粵loeng4 liàng粵loeng6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 呂章 力讓
- Kangxi positions
- 1292.050
- Guangyun positions
- 172.07 424.47
- GSR references
- 0737a
- Cangjie
- AMWG
- Four-corner
- 6010.4