隆 (lóng): short for 吉隆坡, Kuala Lumpur, sound of drums, grand
隆 (lóng) is a Chinese character meaning “short for 吉隆坡, kuala lumpur.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 阝 (structural), 夂 (structural), 一 (structural) and 生 (structural). It ranks #1392 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- short for 吉隆坡, Kuala Lumpur
- sound of drums
- grand
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 克隆verb | kè lóng | (biology) (loanword) to clone |
| 隆重adjective | lóng zhòng | grand |
| 科隆proper-noun | kē lóng | Cologne, Germany |
| 布隆迪proper-noun | bù lóng dí | Burundi |
| 隆隆adjective | lóng lóng | rumble |
| 兴隆adjective | xīng lóng | prosperous |
| 隆起verb | lóng qǐ | to swell |
| 轰隆noun | hōng lōng | (onom.) rumbling |
| 隆德proper-noun | lóng dé | see 隆德縣|隆德县 |
| 吉隆坡proper-noun | jí lóng pō | Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia |
| 巴塞隆纳proper-noun | bā sài lóng nà | (Tw) Barcelona, Spain |
| 隆冬noun | lóng dōng | midwinter |
| 喀麦隆proper-noun | kā mài lóng | Cameroon |
| 布隆伯格 | bù lōng bó gé | Blumberg or Bloomberg (name) |
| 吉隆proper-noun | jí lóng | see 吉隆縣|吉隆县 |
隆 appears in 87 compound words: 36 as the first character, 29 as the last, and 36 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 隆 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (4)
Showing 3 of 4 idioms containing 隆.
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了隆字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le lóng zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "隆" in the dictionary.
金山湾区侨界新春团拜 共祝台湾国运昌隆
jīn shān wān qū qiáo jiè xīn chūn tuán bài gòng zhù tái wān guó yùn chāng lóng
Jinshan Bay Area Overseas Chinese New Year Group Worship Wishing Taiwan a prosperous national fortune
音频 | 格隆汇2.25盘前要点—港A美股你需要关注的...
yīn pín gé lóng huì 2 . 2 5 pán qián yāo diǎn — gǎng A měi gǔ nǐ xū yāo guān zhù de . . .
Audio | Gelonghui 2.25 pre-market points - Hong Kong A US stocks you need to pay attention to...
广角镜/基隆小提灯 飞天马PK旋转木马
guǎng jiǎo jìng jī lóng xiǎo tí dēng fēi tiān mǎ P K xuán zhuǎn mù mǎ
Wide-angle lens/Keelung lantern Flying Pegasus PK carousel
基隆全面打造儿少友善城市 一站式服务窗口守护...
jī lóng quán miàn dǎ zào ér shǎo yǒu shàn chéng shì yī zhàn shì fú wù chuāng kǒu shǒu hù . . .
Keelung comprehensively builds a child-friendly city with a one-stop service window to guard...
基隆小提灯 飞天马PK旋转木马
jī lóng xiǎo tí dēng fēi tiān mǎ P K xuán zhuǎn mù mǎ
Keelung lantern Flying Pegasus PK carousel
伊隆·马斯克是纳粹分子。
Yīlóng Mǎsīkè shì nàcuì fēnzǐ.
Elon Musk is a Nazi.
埃翁多语是客麦隆埃翁多部落所说的语言。
āi wēng duō yǔ shì kè mài lōng āi wēng duō bùluò suǒ shuō de yǔyán.
Ewondo is the language spoken by the Ewondo tribe of Cameroon.
他从台北开车到基隆只花了四十分钟。
Tā cóng Táiběi kāichē dào Jīlóng zhǐ huā le sìshí fēnzhōng.
He drove from Taipei to Keelung in just forty minutes.
基隆的海鲜餐厅非常有名。
Jīlóng de hǎixiān cāntīng fēicháng yǒumíng.
The seafood restaurants in Keelung are very famous.
Character Family
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