隴
隴 — rong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 언덕 롱
- Romanization
- rong
- English
- short name for Gansu Province; a mountain on the border of Gansu and Shaanxi (Mount Long)
- Mandarin
- lǒng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ロウ, リョウ, リュ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- おか
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 阜 (170, 16 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 龍(롱)
- Unicode
- U+96B4
Parts that make up 隴
How 隴 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 隴 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 阜, 龍.
Japanese words with 隴
- 麦隴ばくろう field of grain (not rice)
- 隴を得て蜀を望むろうをえてしょくをのぞむ never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more; giving someone an inch and having them take a mile; taking Gansu only to want Sichuan
Characters sharing the phonetic 龍
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “롱” in Korean.
Other hanja read “롱”
Other hanja with radical 阜
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