lóng

condition or appearance of moon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
月 meaning component

  Meaning component

yuè

  

moon

龍 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

朧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
朧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lóng

condition or appearance of moon; rising moon

Most common words with 朧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

朦胧

hazy

rising moon

朦胧诗

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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