(liáng) - to measure (liang2); quantity, amount (liang4) in Mandarin
liángTraditional: 量
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Translation
to measure (liang2); quantity, amount (liang4)
Word origin
A character that pictures grain being weighed or measured, with 旦 (dàn, dawn or a measure) over 里; read liáng it means to measure, and read liàng it means quantity or amount.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 里 (measure) under 旦 (a unit of measure)
Stroke order
量
Examples
。
Knowledge is power.
。
Please measure the length.
。
The quantity is not enough.
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Mum measures the child's height.
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Please measure the length of this cloth.
量 has two readings: liáng to measure and liàng quantity; it ends compounds such as 力量 (lìliàng), strength, and 数量 (shùliàng), quantity.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 量.
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