HSK 6 · Verbs

晾 liàng “to dry in the air or sun” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 晾 means

  1. to dry in the air or sun
  2. to cold-shoulder
  3. to dry in the air
  4. (fig.) to cold-shoulder

How to say 晾

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale晾liàng4th tone, falling

晾 in a sentence

  1. 这天气最适合晾衣服了。

    Zhè tiānqì zuì shìhé liàng yīfu le.

    This is perfect weather for drying clothes.

    Sentence #13546216 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 你把衣服晾出来！

    Nǐ bǎ yīfu liàng chūlai!

    Hang your clothes out to dry!

    Sentence #400351 from Tatoeba

  3. 衣服被晾出去了。

    Yīfu bèi liàng chūqu le.

    The clothes have been hung out to dry.

    Sentence #400352 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晾 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晾 (liàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
晾liàngto dry in the air
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with liàng.

How to write 晾

晾 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晾 (liàng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 晾 (liàng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晾

More words: Common Verbs

扩充kuòchōng · to expand扩散kuòsàn · to spread扩张kuòzhāng · to expand捞lāo · to fish out淋lín · to drench领先lǐngxiān · to lead力求lìqiú · to strive to溜liū · to slip away

FAQs

晾 (liàng) means “to dry in the air or sun” or “to cold-shoulder”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it liàng: liàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晾 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晾 from the suggestions. Typing liang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晾 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.