隴

See also: 陇

隴	U+96B4, 隴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B4

← 隳
[U+96B3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

隵 →
[U+96B5]

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

Historical forms of the character 隴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǒng (long³)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lung⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): lūng / lṳ̄ng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lang² / loeng³ / lyoeng³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lióng / lóng

(Teochew, Peng'im): lêng²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǒng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǒng
  - Wade–Giles: lung³
  - Yale: lǔng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: loong
  - Palladius: лун (lun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lung⁵
  - Yale: lúhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lung⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: lung⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ¹³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lūng / lṳ̄ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃uŋ³³/, /l̃yŋ³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lang²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: láng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lang²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: loeng³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: lê̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lœŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lyoeng³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lyøŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lióng
  - Tâi-lô: lióng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liorng
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liɔŋ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lóng
  - Tâi-lô: lóng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lorng
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêng²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: léng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵²/

Middle Chinese: ljowngX

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	/lɨoŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/lioŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/lioŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luawŋ^X/
Li Rong	/lioŋ^X/
Wang Li	/lĭwoŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯woŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǒng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lung⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]oŋʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*roŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǒng
Middle Chinese	‹ ljowng^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]oŋʔ/
English	mound
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] 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

(～山) Mount Long, a mountain in Gansu, China
- 夫關中左殽函，右隴蜀，沃野千里。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  夫关中左淆函，右陇蜀，沃野千里。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Fú Guānzhōng zuǒ Xiáo Hán, yòu Lǒng Shǔ, wòyě qiānlǐ. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
(～縣) Long County (a county of Shaanxi, China)
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)
alternative form of 壟 / 垄 (lǒng, “mound; ridge; grave”)
(literary, obsolete) to flourish
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

“隴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “陇”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 144.

Japanese

Kanji

Shinjitai (extended)	𨻫
Print standard	隴

隴

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𨻫)

hill
mound

Readings

Go-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りゆう (ryuu, historical)}
Kan-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りよう (ryou, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: ろう (rō)
Kun: うね (une, 隴)、おか (oka, 隴)^{←をか (woka, 隴, historical)}

References

“^▲隴”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

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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