lǒng

grave

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

龍 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

壟 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
壟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
壟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lǒng

grave, mound; ridge in field; ridge between fields; row of crops; grave mound

Most common words with 壟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

垄断

to monopolize

row of crops

反垄断法

anti-trust law

垄沟

furrow (agriculture)

地垄

lines on ridges on ploughed field

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2336th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+58DF

Shuowen

“壠,丘壠也。从土,龍聲。”


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