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  *龙* | 龙* | *龙
Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur
HSK 3
salon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
dinosaur (CL:頭|头,隻|只) / (old) (slang) ugly person
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龙* | 龙* | *龙
surname Long
Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
Kowloon district of Hong Kong
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
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
to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction
gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.) / titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍|泰坦巨龙) / (slang) big dick / schlong
wyvern (type of dragon)
Omron Corporation (Japanese electronics company)
to build up a sequence / a succession of things, each linked to the previous one
snake (as one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals 生肖)
Hualong district of Puyang city 濮陽市|濮阳市, Henan
Citroën (French car manufacturer)
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
dragon dance
a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
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)
coiled dragon
Metro supermarket chain (originally German)
hose / pipe / fire hose / (botany) water primrose (Jussiaea repens)
legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
Tyrannosaurus spp. / esp. T. rex
to ride the dragon / to die (of emperors and kings)
ichthyosaur
Dodge Nitro (abbr. for 道奇翼龍|道奇翼龙)
pterosaur
long queue / long line (of cars, people etc)
endless stream of horse and carriages (idiom) / heavy traffic
Shilong district of Pingdingshan city 平頂山市|平顶山市, Henan
Lulong county in Qinhuangdao 秦皇島|秦皇岛, Hebei
Year 5, year of the Dragon (e.g. 2000)
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
lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem
lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
Chevron (oil company)
Calderon (Hispanic name)
(PRC) (loanword) Teflon
styrofoam
stegosaurus
evil dragon
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
long queue of slow-moving traffic / tram
allosaurus / also written 異特龍|异特龙
(zoology) mosasaur
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
velociraptor (dinosaur)
(slang) to inhale the vapor from heroin heated on a piece of aluminum foil; to chase the dragon
one that has achieved the way / emperor
Mei, dinosaur genus / Mei long, dinosaur species
ceratopsian
Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Hong Kong actor and martial arts expert
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
Tyrannosaurus rex
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells (loanword)
(lit. and fig.) chameleon
courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
(Tw) (loanword) Teflon
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
Absalom, third son of David, king of Israel (Old Testament)
Houlung town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
Gongsun Long (c. 325-250 BC), leading thinker of the School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
one-eyed person
brachiosaurus
a queue of people
allosaurus
Pteranodon (genus of pterosaur)
theropod (beast-footed dinosaur group) / suborder Theropoda within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs
hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)
to form a long queue (idiom) / (of cars) to be bumper to bumper
Dacron (brand)
triceratops (dinosaur)
triceratops
to mess sth up
to mess sth up / to screw up
titanosaur
Huabeisaurus (Huabeisaurus allocotus)
Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說|古今小说
lit. one dragon / integrated chain / coordinated process
pliosaurus
Gigantoraptor erlianensis (a giant bird-like dinosaur found in Erlian in Inner Mongolia)
bucket brigade / human chain
polystyrene
Stallone (name) / Sylvester Stallone (1946-), American actor
halisaurus
upsilon (Greek letter Υυ)
Anlong county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州, Guizhou
caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)
game where the last word of one idiom 成語|成语 is the first of the next
Jackie Chan (1954-), kungfu film and Cantopop star
to succeed in life / to become somebody
mythical evil serpent / evil dragon in Western mythology, cf Revelations 14:12
diplodocus

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