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龍 (lung4) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

龍 (lung4, lóng) — (noun) (of people) line; dragon M: 条tiáo [条]; imperial; symbol of an emperor; used in literature to describe horse; symbolic of great name; a surname; KangXi radical 212; a queue; money; snake meat; six

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beyond HSK

Related words

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• 龍歸站 (lung4 gwai1 zaam6) — Longgui Station, a metro station in Guangzhou, China
• 龍潭虎穴 (lung4 taam4 fu2 jyut6) — a lion's den, an extremely dangerous place
• 龍牙蕉 (lung4 ngaa4 ziu1) — a type of banana

Chengyu with this character

• 葉公好龍 — To claim a passion that collapses the moment the real thing shows up. Used for professed tastes — adventure, tradition, honesty — that fail their first real test.

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