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垄

lǒng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 壟

What 垄 means

1. ridge between fields
2. crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field
3. grave mound

Example sentences

• 他反对垄断。
  He was opposed to monopolies.
• 他曾经反对垄断。
  He was opposed to monopolies.
• 他反对垄断。他曾经/以前反对垄断
  Tā fǎnduì lǒngduàn. tā céngjīng / yǐqián fǎnduì lǒngduàn
  He was opposed to monopolies.
• 他们垄断了原物料供应，并开天价。
  Tāmen lǒngduàn le yuánwùliào gōngyìng, bìng kāi tiānjià.
  They monopolized the supply market and drastically raised prices.
• 反垄断法律的目的是停止滥用市场影响力的大公司.
  Fǎnlǒngduànfǎ lǜ de mùdì shì tíngzhǐ lànyòng shìchǎng yǐngxiǎnglì de dàgōngsī.
  The purpose of antitrust law is to stop the abusive influence of the market by big companies.
• 在这次会议上, 他垄断了讨论并彻底打乱了议程。
  Zài zhè cì huìyì shàng, tā lǒngduàn le tǎolùn bìng chèdǐ dǎ luàn le yìchéng.
  At the meeting he monopolized the discussion and completely disrupted the proceeding.

Words starting with 垄

• 垄断lǒng duànto monopolize
• 垄沟lǒng gōufurrow (agriculture)

Words containing 垄

• 地垄dì lǒnglines on ridges on ploughed field
• 反垄断fǎn lǒng duànto break up or prevent monopolies; anti-monopoly; antitrust
• 反垄断法fǎn lǒng duàn fǎantitrust legislation
• 寡头垄断guǎ tóu lǒng duànoligopoly

Characters built on 土

These share the phonetic component 土 (tǔ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 墉yōngfortified wall; city wall
• 壅yōngto obstruct; to stop up; to heap soil around the roots of a plant
• 垅lǒngold variant of 垄
• 垌dòngfield; farm; used in place names
• 埇yǒngraised path

Characters that look like 垄

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 美měibeautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify
• 显xiǎnto make visible; to reveal; prominent
• 录lùto carve wood
• 坚jiānstrong; solid; firm
• 呈chéngto present to a superior; memorial; petition
• 歪wāiaskew; at a crooked angle; devious

Sounds the same

Read lǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 拢to gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 笼to envelop; to cover; (used in 笼子; Taiwan pr. lóng
• 陇short name for Gansu 甘肃
• 儱rude; barbarous
• 垅old variant of 垄