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Kotomora

廊

corridor, hall, tower

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • ロウ

Kun'yomi

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Meaning

廊 centers on a long, covered passageway connecting rooms or buildings: a corridor or hall. The tower sense is a less common extension, likely from a tall, hall-like structure.

Most common words using 廊

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  • 廊下ろうか
    N5

    corridor; hallway; passageway

  • 画廊がろう
    N1

    art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery

  • 回廊かいろう

    corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)

  • 廊ろう

    corridor; passage; hall

  • 渡り廊下わたりろうか

    roofed corridor connecting two buildings; connecting passageway

  • ポーランド回廊ポーランドかいろう

    Polish Corridor

  • 中廊下なかろうか

    central corridor; middle corridor

  • 中門廊ちゅうもんろう

    corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

  • 人道回廊じんどうかいろう

    humanitarian corridor

  • 側廊そくろう

    aisle (of a church)

  • 内廊下うちろうか

    interior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); enclosed corridor

  • 前廊ぜんろう

    porch; portico; colonnaded entranceway; ante-hall

  • 回廊地帯かいろうちたい

    corridor (belt of land)

  • 在廊ざいろう

    being present in a gallery (esp. of an artist at their own exhibition)

  • 外廊下そとろうか

    exterior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); open-air corridor

  • 山廊さんろう

    small buildings at the sides of a Zen temple gate (containing stairs to the upper storey)

  • 日本画廊協会にっぽんがろうきょうかい

    Japan Gallery Association; JGA

  • 柱廊ちゅうろう

    pillared corridor

  • 歩廊ほろう

    corridor; gallery; platform; passageway

  • 翼廊よくろう

    transept

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Study

Etymology

廊 combines 广 (building with a roof) with 郎, which likely provides the sound ロウ and may have originally referred to a side building or corridor.

Meaning mnemonic

Under a roof 广, the inner part 郎 looks like a long hallway with rooms off to the sides. Picture walking down a covered corridor in a traditional building.

Reading mnemonic

For ロウ, imagine a long corridor in a row house: row -> ロウ, and you walk down the hall.