láng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a high, lofty gate; spacious

Examples

Làng zhōng shì Jiālíng Jiāng pàn de yí zuò gǔ chéng.
Langzhong is an ancient walled town on the banks of the Jialing River.

Tips

history
is not used as a common word in modern Chinese. As láng it meant a high gate or open space; in mythology is the fairy garden of the immortals. Read làng, it survives in the Sichuan town name . The phonetic is .
register
Archaic and name-only, encountered in old texts, myth and place names, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
mén
door; gate
is the gate radical, here a surrounding frame. It carries the original meaning: is a tall, lofty gateway.
phonetic
liáng
good; fine
sits inside the gate and supplies the sound, drifted to láng / làng. The same phonetic appears in and (wave).

Stroke Order

láng