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oviraptorosaurus (egg-stealing dinosaur)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龍* | 龍* | *龍
surname Long
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龍* | 龍* | *龍
Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur
HSK 3
lit. one dragon / integrated chain / coordinated process
triceratops
Jackie Chan (1954-), kungfu film and Cantopop star
to succeed in life / to become somebody
to form a long queue (idiom) / (of cars) to be bumper to bumper
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安
lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent
Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Hong Kong actor and martial arts expert
Kowloon district of Hong Kong
one-eyed person
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市, Jiangsu / Yunlong county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Omron Corporation (Japanese electronics company)
bucket brigade / human chain
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
Citroën (French car manufacturer)
apatosaurus / former name: brontosaurus
(loanword) macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells
dinosaur (CL:頭|头,隻|只) / (old) (slang) ugly person
HSK 7-9
Year 5, year of the Dragon (e.g. 2000)
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Chevron (oil company)
brachiosaurus
endless stream of horse and carriages (idiom) / heavy traffic
pterodactyl
ichthyosaur
hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)
gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.) / titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍|泰坦巨龙) / (slang) big dick / schlong
to mess sth up / to screw up
a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
Metro supermarket chain (originally German)
Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
Stallone (name) / Sylvester Stallone (1946-), American actor
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
iguanodon
Pteranodon (genus of pterosaur)
to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction
Tyrannosaurus spp. / esp. T. rex
dragon dance
Tyrannosaurus rex
to ride the dragon / to die (of emperors and kings)
a queue of people
upsilon (Greek letter Υυ)
lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
long queue of slow-moving traffic / tram
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
Dsungaripterus (genus of pterosaur)
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
allosaurus
diplodocus
triceratops (dinosaur)
Gigantoraptor erlianensis (a giant bird-like dinosaur found in Erlian in Inner Mongolia)
to mess sth up
black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon
Houlung town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
Yu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi 大元大一統誌|大元大一统志
Dacron (brand)
wyvern (type of dragon)
Phobetor (genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur)
pliosaurus
one that has achieved the way / emperor
(TCM) earthworm
Xinlong county (Tibetan: nyag rong rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
(PRC) (loanword) Teflon
Herbstosaurus (genus of pterosaur)
Champsosaurus
snake (as one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals 生肖)
Dodge Nitro (abbr. for 道奇翼龍|道奇翼龙)
pterosaur
nickname of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 / Wolong giant panda nature reserve 臥龍大熊貓保護區|卧龙大熊猫保护区 in Wenchuan county, northwest Sichuan / Wolong district of Nanyang city 南陽|南阳, Henan
sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity
(Tw) (loanword) Teflon
polystyrene
(lit. and fig.) chameleon
Calderon (Hispanic name)
allosaurus / also written 異特龍|异特龙
lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem
Hezron (name)
Yixianosaurus longimanus, theropod dinosaur from Yi county 義縣|义县, Jinzhou 錦州|锦州, west Liaoning
velociraptor (dinosaur)
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)
evil dragon
coiled dragon
long queue / long line (of cars, people etc)
Tyrannosaurus rex
Absalom, third son of David, king of Israel (Old Testament)
allosaurus
Rapator ornitholestoides (dinosaur)

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