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窿

lóng

HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

What 窿 means

1. cavity
2. hole

Words containing 窿

• 窟窿kū longhole; pocket; cavity
• 穹窿qióng lónga dome; a vault; the sky
• 大耳窿dà ěr lóngloan shark; usurer
• 窟窿眼kū long yǎnsmall hole

Characters that look like 窿

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

• 餐cānmeal; to eat; classifier for meals
• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 薇wēiOsmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 罄qìngto use up; to exhaust; empty
• 寮liáohut; shack; small window
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

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
• 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)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lóng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.