隆 (lóng)
Prosperous; grand; intense; short for Kuala Lumpur
How 隆 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 阝 — town
- Traditional
- 隆
- Simplified
- 隆 (unchanged)
隆 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- lóng
- surname Long; short for 吉隆坡[Ji2 long2 po1], Kuala Lumpur
- lōng
- sound of drums
Common words using 隆
- 興隆 xīnglóng
- Xinglong county in Chengde 承德[Cheng2 de2], Hebei
- 隆重 lóngzhòng
- grand; prosperous; ceremonious
- 克隆 kèlóng
- clone
- 吉隆坡 jílóngpō
- Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia
- 基隆 jīlóng
- Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
- 生意興隆 shēngyìxīnglóng
- thriving and prosperous business or trade
- 科隆 kēlóng
- Cologne, Germany or Colon, Panama
- 轟隆 hōnglōng
- onomat. rumbling; rolling
- 隆冬 lóngdōng
- midwinter; the depth of winter
- 隆胸 lōngxiōng
- breast implants; boob job
- 隆起 lóngqǐ
- to swell; to bulge
- 隆隆 lónglóng
- rumble
隆 in a sentence
這家餐廳的生意非常興隆。
Zhè jiā cāntīng de shēngyì fēicháng xīnglóng.
“Business at this restaurant is very booming.”
How common is 隆?
隆 is the 1,398th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.8% of all running text.
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