Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

longling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Long-ling
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.

Example Sentences

"Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976."
"Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden."

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍陵 /龙陵 (Lónglíng).

Word Breakdown

Root: 龍陵

Inflected Forms

Lung-ling (alternative)

Questions

What does longling mean?: A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
Where does longling come from?: From Mandarin 龍陵 /龙陵 (Lónglíng).

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