胧

朧

lóng

adjective

Meanings

HSK 7-9

朦胧的月光下，湖面格外平静。

Ménglóng de yuèguāng xià, húmiàn géwài píngjìng.

Under the hazy moonlight, the lake looked especially calm.

HSK 7-9

他半醒着，睡眼朦胧。

Tā bàn xǐng zhe, shuìyǎn ménglóng.

He was half awake, his eyes still blurry with sleep.

usage

胧 is a bound character. It lives only in 朦胧 (hazy, dim), used for soft moonlight, blurry sleepy eyes, or anything seen indistinctly.

radical

月 yuè

moon

The moon radical, picturing a crescent. Here it is genuinely the moon: 胧 describes the soft, dim glow of moonlight, not anything fleshly.

phonetic

龙 lóng

dragon

Supplies the sound directly: 龙 lóng gives 胧 its exact reading lóng, a clean phonetic match with no tone drift.

胧 lóng