恐龍

See also: 恐竜 and 恐龙

Chinese

afraid; frightened; to fear dragon; imperial; surname
trad. (恐龍)
simp. (恐龙)

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 恐竜(きょうりゅう) (kyōryū) (Huang, 2020), a calque of New Latin Dinosaurus.

Pronunciation


Noun

恐龍

  1. dinosaur (animal of the clade Dinosauria) [from 1910s] (Classifier: m;  m c)
  2. (slang, offensive, dated) very ugly woman

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Zhuang: gungjlungz

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
きょう
Grade: S
りゅう
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Noun

(きょう)(りゅう) • (kyōryū) 

  1. Kyūjitai form of 恐竜 (dinosaur)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

恐龍 • (gongnyong or McCune-Reischauer: kongnyong or Yale: kōnglyong) (hangeul 공룡)

  1. Hanja form? of 공룡 (dinosaur).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

恐龍

  1. chữ Hán form of khủng long (dinosaur).
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