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灯笼

dēng lóng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 燈籠

灯笼 (dēng lóng) means "lantern". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灯笼 means

1. lantern

The characters in 灯笼

• 灯dēnglamp; light; lantern
• 笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket

Example sentences

• 灯笼在树枝上吊着。
  Dēnglóng zài shùzhī shàngdiào zhe.
  The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.
• 美国自然历史博物馆的「光之生物」展览展出了发绿色光的水母、额头上提着灯笼的琵琶鱼，以及在洞穴顶棚上悬挂粘液状细丝，用来诱捕猎物的萤火虫。
  The American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light” exhibit features jellyfish that glow green, anglerfish whose lantern-like bulbs dangle from their foreheads and luminous glowworms that hang mucus-like strands from cave ceilings to attract and ensnare their prey.

Words starting with 灯笼

• 灯笼果dēng lóng guǒcape gooseberry; Peruvian ground-cherry; Physalis peruviana
• 灯笼花dēng lóng huāChinese enkianthus
• 灯笼裤dēng lóng kùbloomers; plus fours; knickerbockers
• 灯笼鱼dēng lóng yúlantern fish

Words containing 灯笼

• 大红灯笼高高挂Dà hóng Dēng lóng Gāo gāo GuàRaise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 张艺谋

Where 灯笼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎo–dì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dēng lóng correctly.
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