HSK 6 · Objects

灯笼 dēnglong “lantern” in Chinese

Traditional 燈籠

What 灯笼 means

  1. lantern

How to say 灯笼

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale灯dēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own笼longneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

灯笼 in a sentence

  1. 灯笼在树枝上吊着。

    Dēnglong zài shùzhī shang diào zhe.

    The lantern was hanging from a tree branch.

    Sentence #1448906 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 灯笼 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 灯 (dēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
灯dēnglamp
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 丁part of the characterSound part

Memory aidFire 火 on the left: a flame, a lamp. 丁 (dīng) gives the sound.

The character 笼 (lǒng) with each of its parts in a different colour
笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboolight in 灯笼
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 龙dragon · lóngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 龙 (lóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with long.

How to write 灯笼

灯 6 strokes · 笼 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

灯笼 (dēnglong) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 灯笼 (dēnglong). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 灯笼

Words with 灯

灯dēng · lamp红绿灯hónglǜdēng · traffic lights

Words with 笼

笼罩lǒngzhào · to envelop

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FAQs

灯笼 (dēnglong) means “lantern”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dēnglong: dēng with a 1st tone, then long with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 灯笼 is written 燈籠. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type denglong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 灯笼 from the suggestions. Typing denglong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
灯笼 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.