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和龙 (Hé lóng) — Helong (city in Jilin, China)

Definition

A county-level city in Jilin province, in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in far northeastern China, near the North Korean border. The name is usually kept together as a single place name.

noun
Helong (city in Jilin, China)

Examples

  • 和龙。
    Wǒ qù nián qù le Hé lóng lǚ yóu.
    I went to Helong for tourism last year.
  • 和龙。
    Hé lóng Shì yí gè ān jìng de xiǎo chéng shì.
    Helong is a quiet small city.
  • 和龙。
    Cóng cháng chūn zuò huǒ chē dào Hé lóng xū yào wǔ gè xiǎo shí.
    It takes five hours to go from Changchun to Helong by train.

Origin

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
口口kǒumouth
Sound part声符shēngfú
禾
禾hé和hé
Same sound today

和 pairs 禾, which gives the sound, with 口 (mouth), the meaning part; the reference connects this shape to harmony.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 龍; 龙 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 龍 originally drew a sacred creature with a large mouth and a snake-like body; the simplified 龙 is the form written here.

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Appears in
China — Places

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