lóng

throat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

龙 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

咙 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
咙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咙 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
咙 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lóng

throat

Most common words with 咙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喉咙

throat

throat

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.6406% of movies

2247th most common character in movies

3027th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+5499


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