lóng

a gem cut like dragon

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

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

龙 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

珑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
珑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
珑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lóng

a gem cut like dragon; tinkling of gem-pendants

Most common words with 珑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

玲珑

exquisite

八面玲珑

be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations)

小巧玲珑

exquisite

tinkling of gem-pendants

玲珑剔透

exquisitely made

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3797th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+73D1


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