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Modern (Beijing) reading: lóng
Preclassic Old Chinese: ruŋ
Classic Old Chinese: ruŋ
Western Han Chinese: rǝuŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: rǝuŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: lɨuŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: luŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: luŋ
Middle Chinese: lüŋ
English meaning : noble, excellent
Russian meaning[s]: 1) высокий; возвышенный; большой; 2) щедрый; 3) процветающий; процветание; 4) изобилие, избыток; 5) Лун (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *ruŋ 'thunder, sound of thunder'. For *r- cf. Xiamen liɔŋ2, Fuzhou lüŋ2, Chaozhou loŋ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 170
Four-angle index: 401
Karlgren code: 1015 f
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