Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 兩

Modern (Beijing) reading: liǎng

Preclassic Old Chinese: rhaŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: rháŋ

Western Han Chinese: rháŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: rháŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: lháŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lháŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: lháŋ

Middle Chinese: láŋ

English meaning : a pair, two

Russian meaning[s]: 1) оба; два; и тот и другой; обе стороны; в обоих отношениях; на две части; пополам; 2) лан (название старой денежной единицы); таэль; 3) лан, лот (1/16 часть цзинь ныне около 31,25 грамма); 4) счетный суффикс повозок, вм. 輛

Comments: For *rh cf. Xiamen nŋ⁶, Chaozhou no⁴, Fuzhou laŋ⁶. Also read *raŋ-s 'a carriage' (the Min dialects point here to *r-, not *rh- - thus the derivation of this word from *rhaŋʔ as "a pair of wheels" is not certain - moreover, the Chaozhou reading nĩẽ² here points to lack of *-ʔ in the original form; see 輛). Since Han time the word was used also for the name of a measure of weight (about 31 grams), whence Viet. lạng 'tael'. Standard Sino-Viet. is lu'õ'ng.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 11

Four-angle index: 3934

Karlgren code: 0736 a-b

Go-on: riyau

Kan-on: riyau

Japanese reading: ryō;futatsu

Vietnamese reading: lạng

Jianchuan Bai: no2

Dali Bai: no2

Bijiang Bai: no2

Shijing occurrences: 12.1, 45.1, 45.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rV̆ŋ(H)

Meaning: pair, couple

Chinese: 兩 *rhaŋʔ two, a pair; measure of weight.

Tibetan: sraŋ pair of scales; measure of weight.

Burmese: hraṇ́ a pair (also ă-ran)

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 487

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 兩

MC description : 宕開三上養來

ZIHUI: 0357 2319

Beijing: liaŋ 2

Jinan: liaŋ 2

Xi'an: liaŋ 2

Taiyuan: lia_̃ 2

Hankou: niaŋ 2

Chengdu: niaŋ 2

Yangzhou: liâŋ 2

Suzhou: liaŋ 32

Wenzhou: li 22

Changsha: nian 2

Shuangfeng: niaŋ 2

Nanchang: liɔŋ 2

Meixian: liɔŋ 2

Guangzhou: lö_ŋ 22

Xiamen: liɔŋ 2 (lit.); niũ XH; nŋ 32

Chaozhou: liaŋ 21

Fuzhou: luɔŋ 2

Shanghai: liã 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: liaŋ 2