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龍
“dragon; thunder”
龍 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Vietnamese.
Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
龍 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk, meaning “dragon; thunder.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk (“dragon; thunder”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
龍’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 龍
- Ma LongChinese table tennis playerborn 1988
- Chen LongChinese badminton playerborn 1989
- He Longmarshal of the People's Republic of China (1896–1969)
- Gongsun LongChinese philosopher of the 3rd century BCE of the School of Names324 BC–249 BC
- Ryo NagaiJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Zheng LongChinese footballerborn 1988
- Tan LongChinese footballerborn 1988
- Jin LongChinese snooker playerborn 1981
- Narasaki RyōActive in political affairs1841–1906
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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