liǎng
measure word

Meanings

  1. 1 (old) ounce (British imperial unit)

Examples

Jiù yì shū yòng zhège zì zhǐ yīngzhì àngsī, xiànzài yǐ bù yòng le.
Old translated texts used this character for the imperial ounce; today 盎司 is used.

Tips

history
was a coined unit character (mouth radical plus , 'tael', for the phonetic) used in early translations for the British ounce. It is obsolete in modern Chinese, replaced by 盎司 (ounce).
register
Obsolete unit term — found only in old translated and technical texts, not used today.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
the mouth radical is added as a marker that this is a coined transliteration-style unit character, not a literal mouth meaning.
phonetic
liǎng
tael; two
('tael', the traditional Chinese weight unit) gives both the sound liǎng and a weight-unit semantic hint, since the new character names a foreign weight unit.

No stroke data for ; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

liǎng