隴 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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lǒng

mountain located between Shanxi

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.

Components

阝 Meaning component

fù

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

龍 Sound component

lóng

dragon

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

陇 (隴)

lǒng

mountain located between Shanxi

陇 (隴)

Lǒng

short name for Gansu province 甘肅省|甘肃省[GānsùShěng]

Most common words with 隴

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	陇	short name for Gansu province 甘肅省\|甘肃省[GānsùShěng]
	陇西	Longxi county in Dingxi 定西[Dìngxī], Gansu
	陇海	Jiangsu-Gansu railway
	陇海铁路	Jiangsu-Gansu railway
	陇南	Longnan prefecture-level city in south Gansu

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[r]oŋʔ	ljowngX	lǒng	mound

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3353rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Simplified	陇
Unicode	U+96B4
Shuowen	“隴，天水大阪也。从，龍聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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