lóng

deaf

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
耳 meaning component

  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

龍 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

聾 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
聾 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
聾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
聾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lóng

deaf

Most common words with 聾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

deaf

聋子

deaf person

耳聋

deaf

聋哑

deaf and dumb

震耳欲聋

ear-splitting (idiom); deafening

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.rˤoŋ

luwng

lóng

deaf


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.8374% of movies

2446th most common character in movies

2873rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+807E

Shuowen

“聾,無聞也。从耳,龍聲。”


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