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胧

lóng

Character Traditional 朧

What 胧 means

1. used in {朦胧|méng lóng}

Words containing 胧

• 朦胧méng lóng(literary) (of moonlight) dim; (literary) murky; indistinct
• 朦胧诗méng lóng shīMisty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement

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
• 龚Gōngsurname Gong
• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants

Characters that look like 胧

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

• 肤fūskin
• 胺àn(chemistry) amine; colloquial pr. ān; Taiwan pr. ān
• 肮āngused in 肮脏
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 胱guāngused in 膀胱
• 姝shūpretty woman

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)
• 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)