龍
Chinese
forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (thunder, dragon).
Origin
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
*m-bru(ŋ/k)
Gloss
thunder, dragon
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
竜
Emoji
⛈️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- มะโรง Thai
- มะโรงศก Thai
- Sarıaslan Turkish
- aslan Turkish
- denizaslanı Turkish
- rồng Vietnamese
- vòi rồng Vietnamese
- xương rồng Vietnamese
- ارسلان Ottoman Turkish
- 隆 Chinese
- 雹 Chinese
- រោង Central Khmer
- រោងល្ខោន Central Khmer
- *m-bru(ŋ/k) Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- аслъан Adyghe
- འབྲུག Tibetan
- འབྲུག་ཡུལ Tibetan
- འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ Tibetan
- *-roːŋ Proto-Vietic
- រោង Old Khmer
- *-roŋ Proto-Hmong-Mien
- འབྲུག Dzongkha
- ᠯᠤᠤ Classical Mongolian
- ᠯᠤᠤ Middle Mongolian
- 蠬 Middle Vietnamese
- zaj White Hmong
- jung Old Chinese
- ròu᷄ Old Chinese