廊

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corridor; veranda; porch

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

广 meaning “wide” + 郎 sound ( láng )

Components 广郎

hallway · Heisig RSH #2812

cave + 郎 young man

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
亲水长廊	qīn shuǐ cháng láng	waterside promenade
河西走廊	Hé xī Zǒu láng	Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming …
登机廊桥	dēng jī láng qiáo	air bridge; aircraft boarding bridge
发廊	fà láng	hair salon; hairdresser's shop; CL:家[jia1],間\|间[jian1]
长廊	cháng láng	promenade; long hallway; Long Corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing 北京頤和園\|北京颐和园[Bei3 jing…
门廊	mén láng	stoop; parvis; portico; patio; veranda
前廊	qián láng	front porch
回廊	huí láng	winding corridor; cloister; ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
廊酒	Láng jiǔ	Benedictine (liquor)
酒廊	jiǔ láng	bar
走廊	zǒu láng	corridor; aisle; hallway; passageway; veranda
瓦罕走廊	Wǎ hǎn Zǒu láng	Wakhan Corridor, panhandle in the northeast of Afghanistan sharing a border with China at …
廊坊市	Láng fáng Shì	Langfang, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
靠走廊	kào zǒu láng	next to the aisle; aisle (seat on aircraft)
画廊	huà láng	art gallery; decorated corridor
廊桥	láng qiáo	covered bridge; (aviation) passenger boarding bridge; jet bridge
艺廊	yì láng	(Tw) art gallery
廊坊	Láng fáng	see 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4]
拱廊	gǒng láng	triforium (gallery of arches above side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church)
廊庙	láng miào	imperial court

Characters sharing the sound component 郎 — compare how they read.