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郎

Unicode: U+90CE

Pinyin: láng làng

Definition

láng:* 对年轻男子的称呼。 大～。～才女貌。 * 对某种人的称呼。 货～。女～。 * 旧时妻称夫或情人。 ～君。 * 封建时代的官名。 ～中（①古官名；②中医医生）。侍～。员外～。 * 姓。 làng:* 〔屎壳～〕"蜣螂"的俗称

gentleman, young man; husband

Structure

郎 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC