胧

朧

lóng

adjective

Meanings

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.

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