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陇

Lǒng

Character Traditional 隴

What 陇 means

1. short name for Gansu {甘肃|Gān sù}

Words starting with 陇

• 陇海Lǒng HǎiJiangsu-Gansu railway; abbr. for 陇海铁路
• 陇县Lǒng XiànLong County or Longxian, a county in Baoji City 宝鸡市
• 陇南市Lǒng nán ShìLongnan, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肃省
• 陇川县Lǒng chuān XiànLongchuan, a county in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture 德宏傣族景颇族自治州
• 陇西县Lǒng xī XiànLongxi, a county in Dingxi City 定西市
• 陇海铁路Lǒng Hǎi tiě lùJiangsu-Gansu railway
• 陇南Lǒng nánsee 陇南市
• 陇川Lǒng chuānsee 陇川县
• 陇西Lǒng xīsee 陇西县

Words containing 陇

• 仪陇县Yí lǒng XiànYilong, a county in Nanchong City 南充市
• 得陇望蜀dé Lǒng wàng Shǔlit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized; fig. endless greed; insatiable desire
• 仪陇Yí lǒngsee 仪陇县

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 陇

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

• 现xiànto appear; present; now
• 规guīcompass; a rule; regulation
• 股gǔthigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 陈chén(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state…
• 阵zhèndisposition of troops; wave; spate
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up

Sounds the same

Read Lǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 垄ridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
• 拢to gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 笼to envelop; to cover; (used in 笼子; Taiwan pr. lóng
• 儱rude; barbarous
• 垅old variant of 垄