阆

閬
láng
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Zhè dòng lóu zhōngjiān yǒu yí ge hěn dà de kāngláng.
This building has a large open space in the middle.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

阆 láng