两 — Chinese character
两
liǎng
two, both, pair, couple; ounce
- Pinyin
- liǎng
- Radical
- 1 ⼀ (One)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 一 冂 从
- Formation
- ideographic — Two people 从 together in a cart
- Traditional
- 兩
Common words with 两
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 两岸 (兩岸) | liǎng àn | bilateral; both shores |
| 两者 (兩者) | liǎng zhě | both of them; the two of them |
| 两侧 (兩側) | liǎng cè | two sides; both sides |
| 两边 (兩邊) | liǎng biān | either side; both sides |
| 两面 (兩面) | liǎng miàn | both sides |
| 两倍 (兩倍) | liǎng bèi | twice as much; double the amount |
| 两极 (兩極) | liǎng jí | the two poles; the north and south poles |
| 两样 (兩樣) | liǎng yàng | not the same; different |
| 两性 (兩性) | liǎng xìng | male and female; both types (acid and alkaline, positive and negative etc) |
| 两句 (兩句) | liǎng jù | (say) a few words |
| 一国两制 (一國兩制) | yī guó liǎng zhì | one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) |
| 两端 (兩端) | liǎng duān | both ends (of a stick etc); two extremes |
English words written with 两
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.