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郎

郎 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 男。若い男子。
  2. 家来。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「邑」+音符「良」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

son, counter for sons

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ロウJHS
  • リョウ
Kun (native)
  • おとこ
Nanori (used in names)
  • いら
  • お
  • とう
  • もん
  • ろ
  • ろお
Other languages
  • 拼音lang2
  • 拼音lang4
  • 한글rang
  • Hán-ViệtLang
  • Hán-ViệtLảng
  • Hán-ViệtLoang
  • Hán-ViệtLoen
  • Hán-ViệtLoẻn
  • Hán-ViệtSang

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
邑(おおざと)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+90CE

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰⿱丶⿸𢀳丶阝

Words using this kanji

  • 郎ろうnth son, lang, man, young man
  • 郎党ろうどう主君と血縁関係がない従者。 武家の家臣。vassals, retainers, followers
  • 郎君ろうくんyoung man, boy, son (of one's master, employer, etc.), husband
  • 郎女いらつめlass
  • 郎子いらつこlad

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(81 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-3
Four Corner
3772.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2d6.5
Heisig
1995
Nelson
4762