Character: 龍
Modern (Beijing) reading: lóng
Preclassic Old Chinese: roŋ
Classic Old Chinese: roŋ
Western Han Chinese: roŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: roŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: loŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: loŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: loŋ
Middle Chinese: löuŋ
English meaning : dragon
Russian meaning[s]: 1) дракон; 2) император; императорский; высочайший; 3) крепкий, мощный; талантливый; 4) кряж, горная цепь; 5) Лун (фамилия)
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is long. For OC *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen liŋ2, liɔŋ2, Chaozhou leŋ2, Fuzhou lüŋ2, Jianou löŋ2.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data Number: 2241
Character: 龍
MC description : 通合三平鍾來
ZIHUI: 7893 2639
Beijing: luŋ 12
Jinan: luŋ 12
Xi'an: loŋ 12
Taiyuan: luŋ 1
Hankou: noŋ 12
Chengdu: noŋ 12
Yangzhou: lɔuŋ 12
Suzhou: loŋ 12
Wenzhou: loŋ 12 (lit.); liɛ 12
Changsha: noŋ 12
Shuangfeng: naŋ 12; nǝn 12
Nanchang: luŋ 31
Meixian: liuŋ 12
Guangzhou: luŋ 12
Xiamen: liɔŋ 12
Chaozhou: leŋ 12
Fuzhou: lyŋ 12
Shanghai: loŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: luuŋ 12
Radical: 212
Four-angle index: 7155
Karlgren code: 1193 a-e
Vietnamese reading: rồng
Jianchuan Bai: nü7
Dali Bai: nü7
Bijiang Bai: lü7