Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yonglong

/jɔŋ.lɔŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Yong-long
IPA: /jɔŋ.lɔŋ/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

era name used by Liang Shidu (618–628)

name

era name used by Emperor Gaozong of Tang (680–681)

name

era name used by Wang Yanxi, emperor of Min (939–943)

name

A town in Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Example Sentences

"The Wanfotong cave was built in commemoration of the pious deeds of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Ze-tian and their sons by imperial edict in the first year of Yonglong (680) by eunuch Yao Shen-piao and monk Chi Yun, who was in charge of the rites at court."
"Another inscription, dated to the second year of the Yonglong period (681), found in the Bingling cave 54, in Gansu province, reports Wang Xuance’s pious act of installing images of the Buddha and bodhisattvas."
"After ruling the kingdom [of Silla] for twenty-one years, the great king [Munmu] passed away in the second year of the Tang Yung-lung era. . . . Following the king’s command, he was entombed atop a great boulder on the Eastern Sea."
"Directior Yao Shenbiao and Meditation Master (Zhi)yun of the Palace Chapel completed the Fifteen Thousand Honorable Images Shrine on the thirtieth day of the eleventh month of the inaugural year of the Yonglong era of the Great Tang (December 26, 680)"

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永隆 (Yǒnglóng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 永隆, 永漋

Inflected Forms

Yung-lung (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce yonglong?: The recorded pronunciation is /jɔŋ.lɔŋ/.
What does yonglong mean?: era name used by Liang Shidu (618–628)
Where does yonglong come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永隆 (Yǒnglóng).

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