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): lóng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lêng²

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• 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)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lóng
    • Tâi-lô: lóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lêng²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: léng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵²/

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• 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	/lɨoŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/lioŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/lioŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/luawŋX/
Li Rong	/lioŋX/
Wang Li	/lĭwoŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯woŋX/
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	‹ ljowngX ›
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

1. (～山) Mount Long, a mountain in Gansu, China

   • 夫關中左殽函，右隴蜀，沃野千里。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     夫关中左淆函，右陇蜀，沃野千里。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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)

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

• 丘隴 / 丘陇
• 平隴望蜀 / 平陇望蜀
• 得隴望蜀 / 得陇望蜀 (délǒngwàngshǔ)
• 隴上 / 陇上 (Lǒngshàng)
• 隴右 / 陇右 (Lǒngyòu)
• 隴山 / 陇山 (Lǒngshān)
• 隴斷 / 陇断
• 隴海鐵路 / 陇海铁路
• 隴畝 / 陇亩 (lǒngmǔ)
• 隴種 / 陇种
• 隴西 / 陇西 (Lǒngxī)
• 隴西行 / 陇西行
• 隴頭音信 / 陇头音信
• 隴鳥 / 陇鸟
• 麥隴 / 麦陇 (màilǒng)

References

• “隴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 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)

1. hill
2. 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)}

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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