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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
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
lit. one dragon / integrated chain / coordinated process
gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.) / titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍|泰坦巨龙) / (slang) big dick / schlong
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
Kowloon district of Hong Kong
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  *龙* | 龙* | *龙
surname Long
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  *龙* | 龙* | *龙
Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur
HSK 3
Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
to build up a sequence / a succession of things, each linked to the previous one
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
a queue of people
black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon
to mess sth up / to screw up
a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
bucket brigade / human chain
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
Citroën (French car manufacturer)
endless stream of horse and carriages (idiom) / heavy traffic
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
(lit. and fig.) chameleon
dinosaur (CL:頭|头,隻|只) / (old) (slang) ugly person
HSK 7-9
courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
polystyrene
ichthyosaur
to ride the dragon / to die (of emperors and kings)
to form a long queue (idiom) / (of cars) to be bumper to bumper
Champsosaurus
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
one that has achieved the way / emperor
hose / pipe / fire hose / (botany) water primrose (Jussiaea repens)
triceratops (dinosaur)
styrofoam
Houlung town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
Metro supermarket chain (originally German)
Rapator ornitholestoides (dinosaur)
velociraptor (dinosaur)
Tyrannosaurus rex
one-eyed person
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 mess sth up
pliosaurus
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
brachiosaurus
Stallone (name) / Sylvester Stallone (1946-), American actor
(loanword) macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells
game where the last word of one idiom 成語|成语 is the first of the next
oviraptorosaurus (egg-stealing dinosaur)
ceratopsian
diplodocus
Dodge Nitro (abbr. for 道奇翼龍|道奇翼龙)
pterosaur
Year 5, year of the Dragon (e.g. 2000)
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)
Dsungaripterus (genus of pterosaur)
pterodactyl
Calderon (Hispanic name)
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
Tyrannosaurus rex
(TCM) earthworm
Mei, dinosaur genus / Mei long, dinosaur species
salon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
Absalom, third son of David, king of Israel (Old Testament)
Omron Corporation (Japanese electronics company)
allosaurus
(Tw) (loanword) Teflon
long queue / long line (of cars, people etc)
hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)
Huabeisaurus (Huabeisaurus allocotus)
triceratops
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
theropod (beast-footed dinosaur group) / suborder Theropoda within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs
allosaurus
wyvern (type of dragon)
H Mart, Korean supermarket chain in US and Canada
Tyrannosaurus spp. / esp. T. rex
long queue of slow-moving traffic / tram
(slang) to inhale the vapor from heroin heated on a piece of aluminum foil; to chase the dragon
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市, Jiangsu / Yunlong county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan
Gongsun Long (c. 325-250 BC), leading thinker of the School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
stegosaurus
dragon dance
Phobetor (genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur)
titanosaur
Pteranodon (genus of pterosaur)

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