liang
noun
liang is a noun meaning “Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-A-N-G and has one syllable, and it appears 1.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Liang, the name). The plural of liang is liangs.
What does liang mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce liang?
Liang has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of liang
- liangs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is liang?
Liang appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Liang, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does liang come from?
The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩 /两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).