lóng
condition or appearance of moon
Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 朧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hazy | ||
rising moon | ||
Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2837th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6727 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“朧,朦朧也。从月,龍聲。” |
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