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砻

lóng

Character Traditional 礱

What 砻 means

1. dialecttool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill)
2. dialectto hull rice using this tool

Words containing 砻

• 雅砻江Yǎ lóng jiāngYalong river of Tibet and Sichuan

Characters built on 石

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

• 硐tónggrind
• 砼tóngconcrete (building material)

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
• 泷rapids; waterfall; torrential (rain)
• 胧used in 朦胧
• 珑tinkling of gem-pendants
• 窿cavity; hole
• 茏Polygonum posumbu
• 眬used in 蒙眬
• 巃steep; precipitous (of mountain)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lóng correctly.
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