隴

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See also: 陇
隴 U+96B4, 隴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B4
← 隳
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 隵 →

Translingual

Traditional 隴
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𨻫
Simplified 陇

Han character

隴 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜月心 (NLYBP), four-corner 71211, composition ⿰阝龍)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1363, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41904
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1866, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4164, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+96B4

Chinese

trad. 隴
simp. 陇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (龍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
驡 *ʔslaːŋʔ, *roŋ
龐 *broːŋ
瀧 *rroːŋ, *sroːŋ, *roːŋ
籠 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *roŋ
豅 *roːŋ
朧 *roːŋ, *roŋs
龓 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
聾 *roːŋ
礱 *roːŋ, *roːŋs
嚨 *roːŋ
蘢 *roːŋ, *roŋ
櫳 *roːŋ
襱 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *r'oŋʔ
瓏 *roːŋ
曨 *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
鸗 *roːŋ, *roŋ
蠪 *roːŋ
巃 *roːŋʔ
竉 *roːŋʔ
攏 *roːŋʔ
儱 *roːŋʔ, *roŋs
龍 *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ
躘 *roŋ, *roŋs
隴 *roŋʔ
壠 *roŋʔ
壟 *roŋʔ
寵 *r̥ʰoŋʔ
龏 *kloŋ, *kloŋs, *qroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roŋʔ) : semantic 阝 + phonetic 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 隴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力踵切
Baxter ljowngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨoŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lioŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lioŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/luawŋX/
Li
Rong 		/lioŋX/
Wang
Li 		/lĭwoŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯woŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǒng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lung5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 隴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǒng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljowngX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*oŋʔ/
English mound

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 隴
Reading # 1/1
No. 8442
Phonetic
component 		龍
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		隴
Old
Chinese 		/*roŋʔ/

Definitions

隴

  1. (～山) Mount Long, a mountain in Gansu, China
  2. (～縣) Long County (a county of Shaanxi, China)
  3. Alternative name for 甘肅／甘肃 (Gānsù, “Gansu”).
    隴海鐵路／陇海铁路  ―  Lǒng Hǎi Tiělù  ―  Longhai railway (a railway running from Lanzhou, Gansu to Lianyungang, Jiangsu)
  4. Alternative form of 壟／垄 (lǒng, “mound; ridge; grave”)
  5. (literary, obsolete) to flourish
  6. a surname
Descendants
  • → English: Long, Lung

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 隴 – see 壟 (“grave; mound; raised path between fields; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 壟).

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

Shinjitai
(extended)

𨻫

Kyūjitai

隴
隴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𨻫)

  1. hill
  2. mound

Readings

Korean

Hanja

隴 • (rong>nong) (hangeul 롱>농, revised rong>nong, McCune–Reischauer rong>nong, Yale long>nong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隴: Hán Nôm readings: luống, lủng, lũng, lõng, lúng

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