Liang

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency. historical
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, a promotion of the former march of Wei historical
  2. 2
    A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms

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ngweitaelweiwei

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"Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are an unbeatable team."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩 /两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 梁 (Liáng). Doublet of Niu.

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