Character: 量
Modern (Beijing) reading: liáng liàng
Preclassic Old Chinese: raŋs
Classic Old Chinese: raŋh
Western Han Chinese: raŋh
Eastern Han Chinese: reŋh
Early Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ
Middle Chinese: làŋ
English meaning : a measure of capacity
Russian meaning[s]: 1) измерять, мерить; вешать; 2) совещаться, советоваться; 3) соразмеряться с...; [liàng] 1) мера; вес; 2) характер, натура; размах
Comments: The word is derived from *raŋ, MC laŋ, Mand. liáng, Viet. (colloquial) lù'o'ng 'to measure out'; the derived word is, however, attested earlier (already in Shujing), whereas *raŋ 'to measure' first appears only in L.Zhou texts. For *r in *raŋ cf. Xiamen liɔŋ2, Chaozhou nĩẽ2, Fuzhou lioŋ2; in *raŋs cf. Xiamen liaŋ6, Chaozhou liaŋ4, Fuzhou lioŋ6.
Radical: 166
Four-angle index: 442
Karlgren code: 0737 a-c
Vietnamese reading: lụ'o'ng
Jianchuan Bai: liã4
