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lóng

HSK 3 · word 1695 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

他是成龙。

tā shì chéng lóng

He's Jackie Chan.

The character 龙

is the Chinese dragon — a creature of rivers and rain rather than a hoarder of gold, and the emperor's own emblem. 龙年 is its year in the zodiac, and 恐龙, a fearsome one, is a dinosaur.

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