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泷

lóng

Character Traditional 瀧

What 泷 means

1. rapids
2. waterfall
3. torrential (rain)

Other readings

泷 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• ShuāngShuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)

Words starting with 泷

• 泷水Shuāng shuǐShuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)
• 泷泽Lóng zéTakizawa or Takesawa (Japanese name)
• 泷船lóng chuánboat or raft adapted to handle rapids; white-water raft

Characters built on 龙

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

• 宠chǒngto love; to pamper; to spoil
• 笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
• 垄lǒngridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
• 咙lóngused in 喉咙
• 聋lóngdeaf
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 龚Gōngsurname Gong

Characters that look like 泷

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

• 波bōwave; ripple; storm
• 迫pòto force; to compel; to approach or go towards
• 迹jì(bound form) trace; mark; vestige; clue; Taiwan pr. jī
• 沮jǔto destroy; to stop
• 泼pōto splash; to spill; rough and coarse
• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants

Sounds the same

Read lóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 龙Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon
• 隆grand; intense; prosperous
• 笼enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
• 咙used in 喉咙
• 聋deaf
• 胧used in 朦胧
• 珑tinkling of gem-pendants
• 窿cavity; hole
• 茏Polygonum posumbu
• 砻(dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill)…
• 眬used in 蒙眬
• 巃steep; precipitous (of mountain)