Hanja Analyzer
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

  • ⻖ 언덕 부variant of 阜 층진 언덕언덕과 높낮이. 왼쪽에서 ⻖ 로 쓴다
  • 龍 용 룡, 언덕 롱, 잿빛 방sound 몸을 튼 용용, 그리고 크고 신령한 것

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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