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.
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
